Typhoon Haishen Nears Japan and the Koreas

Typhoon Haishen has thankfully decreased in strength, but it is still going to be a strong storm people need to prepare for:

While no longer a super typhoon, Haishen was the first in 2020 to reach that status as it started swinging towards Japan and South Korea.

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) defines a super typhoon as one that reaches maximum sustained one-minute surface winds of at least 150 mph (241.4 km/h), which is equivalent to a Category 4 or 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale in the Atlantic basin.

On Saturday morning, the JTWC said Haishen’s maximum sustained winds are 212 km/h, with gusts reaching as high as 259 km/h — equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane.

Haishen could hit or at least pass very close to Japan Sunday as the equivalent of a Category 2 storm before tracking into South Korea as a Category 1 storm by Monday morning.

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