Typhoon Lan is poised to make landfall in central Japan on Tuesday, with the storm set to bring a month’s worth of rain in just a few days and extreme winds strong enough to flip over a truck.
The weather agency is urging people to avoid travel that is unnecessary or won’t be undertaken right away given the possibility of injuries caused by flying debris and strong winds of up to 180 kilometers per hour, which can uproot trees. It also warned of extremely strong winds, landslides, rising water levels and flooding of rivers, as well as high waves, mainly along the Pacific coastline.
“The typhoon is moving slowly and the total rainfall (in the two regions surrounding Nagoya and Osaka) is expected to top the average monthly rainfall in August,” the agency said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday.