AccuWeather Meteorologist Explains Where In Japan Tropical Storm Shanshan Will Hit Hardest

what does this system mean for people on the ground in Japan what are the communities right now that should be on alert or evacuating can you break down for us the the human aspect here uh big thing um big thing is widespread flooding uh life-threatening flooding with the rain amounts we've been talking about or we're talking of rainfall in feet instead of inches um so life-threatening flooding it's mostly across Southwest Japan kushu um Southwest honu that area maybe as far east as Osaka I think eventually we'll get some rain into like the Tokyo area uh but nothing like what they saw with the typhoon a few weeks ago um in Tokyo I think by the time they get everything's all said and done with the rainfall from the typhoon it's probably like two to four inches of rain uh from that system but the heavier rains will be to their West and kind of in the southwest Japan area uh where the Sy is going to be very slow moving and maybe even stall for a bit so heavier rain in the west and the southwest of Japan 2 to four inches in the Tokyo area I I imagine that the instructions for people differ on where they live right so is the Southwest under evacuation and folks in the Tokyo area just being told to sandbag or reinforce their Windows what's the difference there I'm going to guess the evacuations are closer to where it made landfall across Southwest Japan where the heaviest of the rain has been so far and the strongest winds have been so far I think farther east probably taking precautions um as the rain mounts will be lighter and the wind should not be as big of a factor uh but uh I still wouldn't let my guard down if I was in the Tokyo area because uh maybe the system comes a little bit farther south and it's maybe it's a little slower moving maybe could be even higher rain amounts depending on exactly uh where the center tracks so so we've been talking about typhoon and you mentioned hurricane winds and I just want to pull back a little bit here in the Northeast we talk about hurricanes all the time this time of year what is the difference between a typhoon and a hurricane uh just the naming convention s semantics more or less typhoon is the same thing if you had a math equation typhoon equals hurricane it's just in the West Pacific they call them typhoons in the uh East Pacific Central and East Pacific and in in the Atlantic they're refer to us hurricanes