“At this point, it appears that Lionrock will make landfall in eastern Honshu around or in beteen Tokyo and Sendai”, AccuWeather Meterologist Becky Elliot said.
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“Sustained winds of Lionrock now at 205 kilometers (127 miles) an hour, equivalent to a strong Category 3, almost teetering on a weak Category 4 Atlantic hurricane”, CNN’s Derek Van Dam said.
Typhoon Lionrock is projected to make landfall in the northern region on Tuesday afternoon after taking a boomerang-like route away from Japan before U-turning back.
More than 100 flights were canceled and evacuation warnings were issued for thousands of people as a powerful typhoon approached Japan’s northeast on Tuesday, a region devastated by a massive natural disaster and tsunami five years ago. Choshi lies straight east of Tokyo.
The typhoon comes on the heels of two others that hit Japan in the past nine days, resulting in two deaths, the cancellation of hundreds of domestic flights and disruptions to train services.
Lionrock is the tenth typhoon of the season, and is set to be the fourth to make landfall in Japan this year (the annual average is 2.7).
On August 21, JMA issued a high alert as Typhoon Mindulle and Kompasu approached landfall.
Lionrock prompted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to cut short his visit to Kenya, where he had been leading a conference on African development, to oversee preparation for the storm. Workers secured power cables and hoses, and the company canceled work in some parts of the plant tomorrow.
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