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Category 3 Typhoon Lan Batters Japan
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Super Typhoon Lan as seen by the VIIRS instrument on NOAA’s Suomi satellite on Saturday afternoon, October 21, 2017. At the time, Lan was a high-end Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds. See also this impressive visible zoomed-in loop of Lan’s eye on Saturday, courtesy of Dan Lindsey of NOAA.
Typhoon Lan made landfall near Omaezaki City, Japan, about 120 miles southwest of Tokyoa, near 3 am JST Monday. At landfall, Lan was a Category 2 storm with sustained 1-minute winds of 105 mph. Lan drenched Japan’s main island of Honshu with dangerous torrential rains on Sunday as the Category 3 typhoon, with sustained winds of 120 mph at 8 am EDT Sunday, sped northeast at 29 mph towards Tokyo. Lan was interacting with a frontal system that has brought high wind shear and dry air into the typhoon, resulting in the collapse of its inner core. Passage over cool waters of 25°C (77°F) as Lan approached the coast caused further weakening to a Category 2 typhoon at landfall.
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