Weather forecasters in the U.S. and Japan will be busy this week, with five named tropical cyclones spinning in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and three of them headed for close encounters with highly populated areas in Japan and Hawaii. Typhoon Halong, which peaked at a monstrous Category Five intensity during the weekend, becoming one of the most intense — if not the strongest — storm on Earth so far in 2014
Halong is forecast to make landfall in Japan on Aug. 9 as a Category One typhoon or a strong tropical storm, and it will be the second tropical cyclone to strike that country so far this season. Given recent heavy rainfall in parts of Japan, Typhoon Halong could cause deadly landslides as well as coastal flooding when it comes ashore. Read more...
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