Heavy rain forecast in Kanto-Koshin and other regions

The Kanto-Koshin and Tokai regions of Japan are expected to see heavy rain on Monday as a front located off the country’s Pacific coast is predicted to move north.

Heavy rain may also hit the Pacific side of the Tohoku northeastern region and western regions of the country.

The Japan Meteorological Agency called for caution against landslides, flooding of low-lying areas and swollen rivers, as well as lightning strikes and wind gusts.

Linear precipitation zone information was issued to the Kanto eastern region and Tokai.

Specifically, linear precipitation zones may develop until early Monday in Tokyo’s Izu Islands, from Sunday night to Monday morning in Aichi and Mie prefectures, from Sunday night to shortly before noon Monday in Shizuoka Prefecture, and from late Sunday night to shortly before noon Monday in Tokyo, excluding the Izu and Ogasawara islands, as well as in neighboring Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures.

Some Pacific side areas in eastern and western Japan had heavy rain Sunday morning due to the front and Tropical Storm Krovanh, the 24th typhoon or storm of the year, which is located near the main island of Okinawa.

In Hachijojima, one of the Izu Islands, rainfall amounted to 84.0 millimeters in one hour until shortly after 6:35 a.m. Sunday and reached 240.5 millimeters in the six hours until 8:30 a.m.

At 9 a.m. Sunday, Tropical Storm Krovanh was traveling east-northeast over the sea some 190 kilometers east of the Okinawa capital of Naha at a speed of 15 kilometers per hour.

It had a central pressure of 992 hectopascals, registering a maximum sustained wind speed of 18 meters per second and a maximum instantaneous wind speed of 25 meters per second. Wind speeds were 15 meters per second or more in areas within about 650 km west and 330 km east of the center of the storm.

The storm is forecast to turn into a tropical depression Tuesday over the sea east of the Amami Islands region of Kagoshima Prefecture in the Kyushu southwestern region.

In the 24 hours until 6 a.m. Monday, rainfall is seen reaching up to 300 millimeters in Tokai, up to 250 millimeters in Kanto-Koshin, up to 200 millimeters in the Kinki western region and up to 150 millimeters in southern Kyushu and the Shikoku western region.

In the following 24 hours until 6 a.m. Tuesday, the maximum amount of rain is forecast at 200 millimeters in Tohoku and Tokai, 150 millimeters in Kanto-Koshin and 120 millimeters in Kinki.