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AIRPORT(KANSAI)
- It recorded winds of up to 216km/h (135mph) and made landfall at about noon local time on Tuesday (03:00 GMT).
- Images showed containers in ports thrown about like toy bricks and vehicles scattered across roads.
- Dozens of cars were engulfed in fire at a depot in Nishinomiya as water short-circuited electrics.
- Some 1.2 million people had been advised to leave evacuated areas as the storm approached and local media
- The Universal Studios Japan theme park in Osaka was closed again
- Tropical cyclones are known by various names in different parts of the world.
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- In the North Atlantic Ocean and the eastern North Pacific they are called hurricanes, and in the western North Pacific around the Philippines, Japan, and China the storms are referred to as typhoons.
- In the western South Pacific and Indian Ocean they are variously referred to as severe tropical cyclones, tropical cyclones, or simply cyclones. All these different names refer to the same type of storm.
- TYPHOONS-6 degree and 20 degree north and south of the equator and are most frequent from July to October.-smaller— diameter of only 50 to 200 miles—have steeper pressure gradient—wind velocity may reach upto 100mile/h
- Hurricanes—calm rainless centres where pressure is lowest. But around the eye the wind strength exceeds force of 75miles/h
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