Les enfants sont revenues de l'école bien heureux hier soir:
``Il va y avoir un typhon vendredi, l'école sera fermé! Yahou!!``
Septembre est la saison des typhons au Japon, donc histoire de vous inquièter un peu, je copie le dernier bulletin de nouvelle:
(Sans blague, pas d'inquètudes, l'embassade en a vue de bien pires. On nous a seulement demander de rentrer les plantes extérieur et les parasols. ) En passant, les morts due au typhon l'année dernière, mentionné dans l'article, étaient tous dans la région d'Okinawa et Kyushu, ou les typhon sont beaucoup plus violents. Les morts sont aussi presque toujours des gens qui décident que c'est une journée idéal pour aller sur le toit réparer la cheminé, ou faire un petit tour en bateau pour pecher la sardine...
On vous donne des nouvelles après la tempête...
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No worries guys, the embassy has seen much worse. They only asked us to get our potted plants and parasols inside... Not as exciting as it sounds... Just FYI. Update after the storm.
Typhoon Fitow Strengthens; May Reach Land Near Tokyo (Update2)
By Aaron Sheldrick
Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Typhoon Fitow strengthened as it plowed across the Pacific Ocean toward Japan and is forecast to gain in power before landing southwest of Tokyo tomorrow with winds of 166 kilometers per hour (104 miles an hour).
The eye of Fitow was 654 kilometers south of Tokyo at 3 p.m. Japan time today, according to the latest advisory on the U.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center's Web site.
Fitow's winds strengthened to 138 kilometers per hour, with gusts to 166 kilometers an hour. The storm was heading north at 13 kilometers an hour. Wave heights were 33 feet (10 meters) in the vicinity of the eye of Fitow, the 10th storm of the northwestern Pacific cyclone season.
Fitow is forecast to strengthen tonight and tomorrow as it swings to the north and may threaten areas southwest of Tokyo tomorrow. Japan is regularly buffeted by tropical cyclones during the northern hemisphere's summer, and three people died last month when Typhoon Man-Yi swept across Okinawa and Kyushu.
The typhoon's winds are expected to strengthen to 166 kilometers per hour by tomorrow, making it a Category 2 storm, the second-weakest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.
Fitow is the name of a flower found on the island of Yap in Micronesia, according to the Web site of the Hong Kong Observatory, which lists cyclone names in use in the Pacific.
A record 10 tropical storms and typhoons hit Japan during 2004, killing more than 60 people and causing billions of dollars of damage.
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No worries guys, the embassy has seen much worse. They only asked us to get our potted plants and parasols inside... Not as exciting as it sounds... Just FYI. Update after the storm.
Typhoon Fitow Strengthens; May Reach Land Near Tokyo (Update2)
By Aaron Sheldrick
Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Typhoon Fitow strengthened as it plowed across the Pacific Ocean toward Japan and is forecast to gain in power before landing southwest of Tokyo tomorrow with winds of 166 kilometers per hour (104 miles an hour).
The eye of Fitow was 654 kilometers south of Tokyo at 3 p.m. Japan time today, according to the latest advisory on the U.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center's Web site.
Fitow's winds strengthened to 138 kilometers per hour, with gusts to 166 kilometers an hour. The storm was heading north at 13 kilometers an hour. Wave heights were 33 feet (10 meters) in the vicinity of the eye of Fitow, the 10th storm of the northwestern Pacific cyclone season.
Fitow is forecast to strengthen tonight and tomorrow as it swings to the north and may threaten areas southwest of Tokyo tomorrow. Japan is regularly buffeted by tropical cyclones during the northern hemisphere's summer, and three people died last month when Typhoon Man-Yi swept across Okinawa and Kyushu.
The typhoon's winds are expected to strengthen to 166 kilometers per hour by tomorrow, making it a Category 2 storm, the second-weakest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.
Fitow is the name of a flower found on the island of Yap in Micronesia, according to the Web site of the Hong Kong Observatory, which lists cyclone names in use in the Pacific.
A record 10 tropical storms and typhoons hit Japan during 2004, killing more than 60 people and causing billions of dollars of damage.
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