AccuWeather Meteorologist Reveals The Main Threat From Tropical Storm Shanshan

tell us about this typhoon and I understand just within the last few hours it's actually been downgraded to a tropical storm what do we need to know here yeah that's uh that's right it it came in a Shore earlier on Thursday in Kyushu um as a category two hurricane equivalent uh wind gust to 120 miles per hour is now that it's moved over land is since weekend or lost wind intensity now it's down to a tropical storm uh the main threat going forward now now that the winds are kind of subsiding the main threat is going to be Heavy Rain especially with the system start expected to slow it looks like it's moving gradually East northeastward the East northeastward but at some point I think um Friday night or Saturday it's going to stall and kind of sit in the same area for maybe 24 36 hours before the next front comes along and finally picks it up and pushes it uh off the east coast of of hu probably early next week probably I'm guessing some point later Tuesday at this point later Tuesday so that's that's an extended period but let's just I want to go back to those wind speeds that you mentioned how high had the wind gotten and how how strong are the gusts right now uh right now the strongest gusts are somewhere in the vicinity of hurricane force uh which is about 75 miles hour there could be on some of the elevated areas where there maybe observations a little more sparse um probably up at upwards of 80 mph but uh at its peak as it was starting to move across the northern Ruku Islands it got to a category 4 hurricane equivalent with gave you a gust to 140 150 miles per hour but fortunately by the time it made landfall in Kyushu on Thursday it had run into some drier air some stronger wind shears so it it lost some wind intensity by the time it finally made that landfall on Kyushu uh earlier on Thursday local time okay so that was the wind and what about rainfall I've seen numbers like 60 cmers which is two feet of water how much rain is falling on the ground in Japan right now um near where it made landfall there's been widespread amounts of 1 to two feet of rain like 12 to 24 Ines uh even some local amounts uh approaching 3 feet like 36 in 33 34 I think is the highest I saw uh so far um as the system moves Eastward very slowly I think we could continue to see just due to the fact that it looks like it probably stalls for a time over the course of the weekend we could see areas maybe as far east as around Osaka getting 12 maybe 24 inches of rain um with the system especially if it slows and and stalls in the area for 24 36 hours