Tropical Storm Shanshan dropped heavy on parts of southwestern Japan on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Shanshan was located at latitude 33.8\u00b0N and longitude 131.6\u00b0E which put the center about 20 miles (30 km) west of Matsuyama, Japan.\u00a0 Shanshan was moving toward the east-northeast at 3 m.p.h. (5 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 990 mb.<\/p>\n
Former Typhoon Shanshan weakened to a tropical storm as it moved across Kyushu on Thursday.\u00a0 Bands in the eastern side of Tropical Storm Shanshan dropped heavy rain on parts of Kyushu, Shikoku and southwestern Honshu.\u00a0 The heaviest rain fell in locations where southerly winds pushed air up the slopes of mountains.\u00a0 A weather station in Yosuhara reported 16.37 inches (416 mm) of rain.\u00a0 A weather station in Hongawa reported 13.05 inches (331.5 mm) of rain.\u00a0 Heavy rainfall caused flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Shanshan weakened on Thursday as the center moved over land.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Shanshan’s circulation.\u00a0 The heaviest rain was falling in bands in the eastern side of Tropical Storm Shanshan.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center of Shanshan.<\/p>\n
An upper level trough over northeastern Asia will steer Tropical Storm Shanshan toward the east-northeast during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center Tropical Storm Shanshan will move across Shikoku during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Shanshan will continue to drop heavy rain on parts of southwestern Japan on Friday.\u00a0 Heavy rain will fall in parts of Shikoku and southwestern Honshu.\u00a0 The heaviest rain will fall where southerly winds push air up the slopes of mountains.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause additional flash floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Shanshan dropped heavy on parts of southwestern Japan on Thursday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Shanshan was located at latitude 33.8\u00b0N and longitude 131.6\u00b0E which put the center about 20 miles (30 km) west of Matsuyama, Japan.\u00a0 Shanshan was moving toward the east-northeast at 3 m.p.h. (5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[466,3698,461,44,133,3696,1121,523,1120,467,3697],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20981,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20980\/revisions\/20981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}