Storm Chanthu left low-lying flats, streets and farmland flooding this Friday on the island of Jeju, in southern South Korea, the place no accidents have been reported as a result of storm’s torrential rains and robust winds.
Chanthu, the 14th storm of this season within the Pacific, was on the closest level to the island at 7:00 a.m. native time (22:00 GMT on Thursday), regarding 60 kilometers from the town of Seogwipo on its path. over waters of the Korea Strait in the direction of the Japanese island of Kyushu, the place it’s anticipated to make landfall within the subsequent few hours.
The tropical cyclone is transferring northeast at 20 kilometers per hour and beneath its affect greater than a thousand millimeters of rain have already fallen in some mountainous areas of Jeju this week, whereas it regularly approached the island from the south and earlier than to alter its trajectory and checklist extra in the direction of the southern a part of Japan.
Chanthu has uprooted bushes, a visitors mild and a few segments of a railing, along with flooding farmland, some roads and low-rise houses and inflicting different materials and structural harm, with no accidents reported, in keeping with official data collected by the company. native information Yonhap.
The affect of the storm additionally led to the blockage by island authorities of entry to areas susceptible to flash flooding, the cancellation of 23 flights to or from Jeju, and the suspension of 48 ferries on 29 routes connecting the island with different areas of the nation.
With data from UR
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2024-06-17 14:41:51
