Almost 1 million people in southern Japan were ordered to evacuate on Wednesday, as the region braced itself for a month's worth of rain in a single day, according to local officials
The Japanese island of Kyushu, inhabited by 13.3 million residents, is expected to be lashed by more than 350 millimeters of rain Thursday. That's more than the island's average rainfall of 319 millimeters for the entire month of July. Parts of Kagoshima prefecture, on Kyushu, could see more than 80 millimeters of rainfall per hour, forecasters warned. Japan's Meteorological Agency said a number of places within the prefecture, which has a population of 1.
活発な梅雨前線が停滞し、九州を中心に記録的な大雨が続いており、住宅の損壊被害も発生しております。これから明日にかけては、九州を中心に平年の７月一か月分の雨量を超える激しい雨の降ることが予想されています。 pic.twitter.com/pUkpHMTImG — 安倍晋三 July 3, 2019 After a ministerial meeting Wednesday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tweeted that an additional 14,000 staff from the Japanese Defense Forces have been deployed to assist emergency responders. From early June to late July, Japan traditionally experiences a rainy"baiu" season, as humid air from the south converges with cooler, drier air from the north.In the past, the baiu season has caused devastating natural disasters.
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