Heavy rains expected between western and eastern Japan
The Meteorological Agency says warm and damp air flowing into a low pressure system accompanied by a rain front over the Sea of Japan intensified rain in wide areas between western and eastern Japan on Saturday.
The inflow of warm and damp air is expected to continue, causing extremely heavy rains of more than 50 millimeters per hour with thunder till late Saturday night in the Shikoku region, and up to early Sunday morning in the Tokai region.
Heavy rains of more than 30 millimeters per hour with thunder are expected in the Kinki and Hokuriku regions till early Sunday morning, and in the Kanto-Koshin region between late Saturday night and Sunday evening.
In the 24 hours up to Sunday evening, 180 millimeters of rain is expected in the Tokai region, 150 millimeters in the Kanto-Koshin and Shikoku regions, and 120 millimeters in the Hokuriku and Kinki regions.
Weather officials are calling on people to stay on alert for landslides, flooding in low-lying areas and swollen rivers.
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