TOKYO — Powerful Typhoon Hagibis churned towards Japan on Saturday, heading straight towards the capital with potentially record-breaking rains and sparking evacuation orders, transport disruption and power outages even before making landfall. It is also an unusually large storm, and expected to bring “brutal winds and violent seas” to large swathes of the country, the agency said. World Rugby called the threat “disappointing.”The storm is also causing transport chaos over a long weekend in Japan. Japan is hit by around 20 typhoons a year, though the capital is not usually badly affected. Hagibis is bearing down on the region just weeks after another powerful storm, Typhoon Faxai, hit the area with similar strength, killing two and causing major damage in Chiba.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 12, 2019 02:03 UTC