Millions of people in Japan told to evacuate as the typhoon made its first landfall on Sunday.
Typhoon Nanmadol made landfall near Kagoshima city on Sunday evening with winds of 110 miles per hour, the equivalent of a strong Category 2 hurricane. According to, its central pressure was 935 millibars at landfall, making it the fourth-strongest typhoon on record to make landfall in Japan since the agency began collecting the data in 1951.
The storm roared onto the main island of Honshu on Monday morning. Nanmadol began to weaken as it moved over land yesterday, but still brought heavy rains. By Monday evening, parts of Kyushu, Shikoku island, and the region of Chugoku experienced rainfall over seven inches in 24 hours. Shikoku’s Yanase saw more than 15 inches of rain.the southern main island of Kyushu saw the heaviest rainfall, where observations showed five separate weather stations picked up 19.
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