Tropical Storm Jangmi barrels toward Japan with heavy rain, damaging winds

Tropical Storm Jangmi is barreling towards Japan, bringing its archetypal impacts to the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa, before it's expected to weaken arsenic it approaches the mainland.

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Heavy rainfall and beardown winds person already taken clasp arsenic the halfway of the tempest sits conscionable to the westbound of Okinawa successful the Ryukyu Islands, conscionable southbound of mainland Japan.

Evacuations person been ordered passim aggregate Okinawa municipalities, with exigency shelters open. Travel has been disrupted with hundreds of flights canceled done Tuesday.

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The Naha Airport, which handles astir each large home and planetary flights, has closed for a afloat time connected Monday for safety. 

Jangmi developed into a typhoon connected Saturday, earlier weakening to a tropical tempest connected Monday. 

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The tropical tempest is presently battering Japan's Ryukyu Islands with damaging winds and dense rain.

This includes the land of Okinawa, wherever the U.S. maintains a ample subject beingness crossed aggregate bases. 

Kadena Air Base has reported a upwind gust of 74 mph, and Naha International Airport reported a gust of 77 mph.

By Wednesday successful Japan, Jangmi volition statesman to impact the Japanese mainland.

The tempest should beryllium weakening astatine that point. However, a notable punch of rainfall and winds perchance topping 50 mph, volition beryllium apt for cities specified arsenic Osaka, Hamamatsu and Tokyo. 

According to the FOX Forecast Center, from 1991 to 2020, the Western Pacific typically averages 26 named storms, 16 typhoons, and 9 large typhoons per season. 

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Following an progressive commencement to the play — which has already produced 4 named storms, a typhoon, and a large typhoon — the FOX Forecast Center notes that this inclination could proceed arsenic El Niño intensifies.

Earlier this year, the second-strongest typhoon ever observed this aboriginal successful the twelvemonth occurred: Super Typhoon Sinlaku, which rapidly intensified into a ace typhoon with 175 mph winds connected April 12. 

This caused extended harm crossed the Northern Mariana Islands arsenic good arsenic Guam.

Stick with FOX Weather arsenic the tempest develops.