Typhoon Faxai hit Tokyo, Japan on Sunday.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Faxai was located at latitude 35.3\u00b0N and 139.7\u00b0E which put it about 30 miles (50 km) south of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Faxai was moving toward the north-northeast at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 110 m.p.h. (170 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 130 m.p.h. (220 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 959 mb.<\/p>\n
The eye of Typhoon Faxai was very near Tokyo and the northern portion of the eyewall may have been over the city.\u00a0 The strongest winds were in the ring of thunderstorms around the eye.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out about 45 miles (75 km) from the center of Typhoon Faxai.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force were likely occurring in the Tokyo metropolitan area.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 160 miles (260 km) from the center of Faxai.\u00a0 Radar operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency indicated that the eyewall and rainbands were dropping heavy rain over the region around Tokyo.\u00a0 Flash flooding is likely to occur in some locations.<\/p>\n
Typhoon Faxai will move northeast across eastern Honshu during the next few hours.\u00a0 Faxai will be capable of causing serious wind damage while it moves over the region northeast of Tokyo.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in that area.\u00a0 Typhoon Faxai will move northeast of Japan on Monday and conditions should improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Typhoon Faxai hit Tokyo, Japan on Sunday.\u00a0 At 2:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Typhoon Faxai was located at latitude 35.3\u00b0N and 139.7\u00b0E which put it about 30 miles (50 km) south of Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Faxai was moving toward the north-northeast at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 110 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[771,1667,461,44,474,1666,772],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343"}],"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=8343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8344,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343\/revisions\/8344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}