Kirk here with a follow-up to William’s and Atsuko’s posts about the approaching typhoon. Fortunately, it’s not very powerful. The image shows the current projection regarding how the storm will move in the next 24 hours. Though it looks like it will come close to being a direct hit on Kumamoto, it shouldn’t be a very hard hit, at least in terms of wind speed. Tropicalstormrisk.com says that the probability of tropical storm winds or stronger is less than 10%. But, on the other hand, we may have a lot of rain. Sometimes slow moving storms with relatively low wind speeds can do a lot of damage if they wind up dumping a lot or rain in one area.
Kirk here with a follow-up to William's and Atsuko's posts about the approaching…
