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- STOP - THE - RAIN - ! -
I almost run out
of prayers
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- - - - - The Rain of Daruma
Continue practicing Zen meditation until you see yourself in the cruelest person on Earth, in the child starving, in the political prisoner.
Practice until you recognize yourself in everyone in the supermarket, on the street corner, in a concentration camp, on a leaf, in a dewdrop.
Meditate until you see yourself in a speck of dust in a distant galaxy.
See and listen with the whole of your being.
If you are fully present,
the rain of Dharma will water the deepest seeds in your consciousness,
and tomorrow, while you are washing the dishes
or looking at the blue sky, that seed will spring forth,
and love and understanding will appear as a beautiful flower.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Heavy rainstorms hitting many parts of Japan - NHK world news
Heavy rainfall is lashing a wide area from western to northeastern Japan.
Weather officials say warm, damp air is moving into a rain front over Japan's main island, while a cold air mass is hovering over the country. They say this has destabilized the atmospheric conditions.
94 millimeters of rain was recorded in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, during the 1-hour period until around 8 AM on Monday.
Radar images show up to 110 millimeters of rain per hour fell in Kagoshima Prefecture at around the same time.
Accumulated rainfall since Thursday has topped 400 millimeters in parts of southern Kyushu.
The downpours forced Japan Railways to suspend service on the Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train line in Kagoshima. But the service resumed less than one hour later.
Officials in Hyogo say a house was flooded after a nearby slope collapsed and mud poured into a waterway, causing it to overflow. They say an elderly woman who lived in the house alone was rescued.
As the risk of floods and mudslides has risen, some municipalities in Kagoshima, Hyogo and Ishikawa prefectures have issued evacuation advisories to local residents.
Low storm cloud caused tornado - NHK news Sep. 2, 2013
A meteorologist says a tornado that hit parts of eastern Japan on Monday was produced by a supercell -- a thunderstorm containing rotating updrafts of air -- that formed much closer to the ground than usual.
Japan's National Defense Academy Professor Fumiaki Kobayashi said he studied footage of the tornado captured in the Saitama and Chiba prefectures.
The professor said the cloud developed as low as 500 meters from the ground. Such clouds usually form at twice that height.
He said a funnel-shaped airstream appeared under the cloud and grew to at least 100 meters wide. Kobayashi said the cloud was so large that it maintained power even when the storm lost energy due to rainfall.
He said people in the tornado-hit areas must have thought they could touch the dark cloud. He urged people to be cautious of supercell clouds as they can be a sign that a tornado is coming.
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Typhoon Nr. 17 台風 17号
TORAJI（トラジー） - 2013年9月2日4時30分発表
2013年9月4日4時30分発表
4日3時には指宿市付近にあって、北東へ毎時35kmで進んでいます。中心気圧は985hPa、中心付近の最大風速は25m/sです。この台風は、4日15時には志布志市付近に、5日3時には宮崎市の東約60kmに達し、6日3時には足摺岬の東南東約40kmに達する見込みです。その後、温帯低気圧に変わり、7日3時には近畿地方に達するでしょう。
Will be near Ashizuri Misaki in Shikoku early morning on September 6. Then cross over Japan and reach Tsuruga on Nihonkai side.
. Typhoon season 2013 - 台風 .
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September 04 - 9月4日(水)
美咲町の警報・注意報 -
警報 大雨 注意報 雷、洪水
pounding rain
all night and morning -
nightmares
Rain Clouds over Okayama, at 10 in the morning . . .
今日の天気 - 9月4日(水)
| 時間 | 0時 | 3時 | 6時 | 9時 | 12時 | 15時 | 18時 | 21時 |
| 天気 |
強雨 | 
曇り |
強雨 | 
強雨 |
強雨 |
強雨 | 
弱雨 | 
曇り |
| 気温（℃） | 18 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 23 |
| 湿度（％） | 94 | 95 | 96 | 95 | 94 | 90 | 92 | 92 |
| 降水量（mm/h） | 6 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 0 |
風向
風速（m/s） | 西北西
2 | 西北西
3 | 南南西
1 | 北西
5 | 北西
1 | 北西
2 | 北北西
2 | 北西
1 |
- quote
高梁市で総雨量１５０ミリ超
土砂災害への警戒呼び掛け
西日本に停滞する前線などの影響で、岡山県内は３日も断続的に雨が降った。総雨量は高梁市で１５０ミリを超え、岡山地方気象台は各地で地盤が緩んでいることから、土砂災害への警戒を呼び掛けている。
同気象台は倉敷、総社市、吉備中央町などに大雨警報を発表。８月30日午前７時の降り始めから３日午後８時までの総雨量は高梁市１５３・５ミリ、井原市芳井町佐屋１３４ミリ、吉備中央町１３５ミリ、岡山市中心部１００・５ミリ―などだった。
source : www.sanyo.oni.co.jp
【速報】- 岡山県内広域に土砂災害警戒情報を発表した.
Storm crossing southwestern Japan - NKH world news Sep. 4, 2013
A powerful storm is moving through southwestern Japan, bringing heavy rain and strong winds. Weather officials say affected areas should remain alert for mudslides, overflowing rivers and floods.
Japan's Meteorological Agency says
Severe Tropical Storm Toraji made landfall in Kagoshima Prefecture early on Wednesday.
The Agency says Toraji was moving northeast at around 30 kilometers per hour near Miyazaki Prefecture as of 8 AM.
The storm's atmospheric pressure is 998 hectopascals at its center. Gusts of more than 54 kilometers per hour are blowing within a radius of 220 kilometers.
Winds of over 100 kilometers per hour were observed at around the time the storm hit land.
Rain clouds and moist air are causing downpours over a wide area of western Japan. More than 80 millimeters per hour of rain was observed on the island of Shikoku.
Kagoshima Prefecture was drenched with over than 250 millimeters of rain between Tuesday and Wednesday, which is above average for the whole month of September.
The storm is categorized as the 17th typhoon of the season in Japan.
At 12:00 the rainfall forecast for the afternoon was
upgraded from 6 to about 18 !
At 13:00 the rain stopped and a few minutes of sunshine !
Now a strong wind is blowing, but the main rainclouds have moved further east of us.
There has been another tatsumaki tornado in Yaita and Kanuma - details later.
- - - Tornado rips through Tochigi Prefecture - NHK world news
A tornado has ripped through Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, damaging more than 110 buildings and leaving at least 3 people injured.
In Yaita city and neighboring Shioya town, a tornado ripped off roofs and shattered windows shortly after 1:00 PM on Wednesday. Local fire officials say a total of 50 buildings were damaged.
In Kanuma city, gusts of wind at around 12:20 PM caused similar damage to 66 houses and factories.
Three men in their 50s to their 70s suffered minor cuts and bruises.
Wind storms are believed to have been formed in 3 locations, as the 3 municipalities are 8 to 30 kilometers apart.
- quote - Japan Times -
More twisters touch down in Kanto
Unstable atmospheric conditions extending across the country, including from the first typhoon to directly hit Kyushu in six years, spawned destructive tornados in the Kanto region Wednesday, two days after a twister wreaked havoc in Saitama, Chiba and Ibaraki prefectures.
Typhoon Toraji made landfall in Kyushu early Wednesday, prompting storm warnings, but the Meteorological Agency said the season’s 17th typhoon had weakened to an extratropical cyclone near Shikoku at around 9 a.m. and was moving northeast at around 30 kph. A swollen river in Gifu Prefecture, however, may have swept a girl away, and police are searching for her.
The cities of Kanuma and Yaita in central Tochigi Prefecture were believed to have been hit by twisters that tore off roofs and shattered windows in the afternoon, police said.
Two men were injured in Kanuma, where an apparent tornado tore the roofs off several houses and factories. Nearby Shioya suffered similar damage at around 1 p.m., local officials and police said.
In Yaita, windows were broken at a hospital and a school, and falling trees damaged about a dozen cars parked at a hospital. Calls poured in to City Hall from residents reporting that they had seen a tornado, officials said.
East Japan Railway Co. temporarily halted trains between the prefectural capital of Utsunomiya and the resort town of Nikko due to a power outage caused by lightning near Kanuma.
The highly unstable atmospheric conditions in Tochigi and the rest of the northern Kanto region were caused by warm, humid air sweeping under a stationary cold front over Honshu.
The regional weather observatory in Utsunomiya put out a tornado warning for Tochigi Prefecture at 12:47 p.m.
The city of Ise, Mie Prefecture, may also have been hit by at least one tornado Wednesday afternoon. Some 30 houses sustained roof and window damage.
On Monday, a tornado ripped its way from Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, to Noda, Chiba Prefecture, leaving more than 60 people injured and hundreds of houses damaged.
In regard to the weakening typhoon, the Meteorological Agency issued warnings for landslides and flooding as southern Kyushu was forecast to receive 300 mm of rainfall in the 24 hours to 6 a.m. Thursday, including periodic torrents of 80 mm per hour in some districts.
Heavy rain also hit Gifu and Aichi prefectures Wednesday afternoon, with more than 20,000 people in the Gifu cities of Ogaki and Kaizu and residents of Kita Ward, Nagoya, ordered to evacuate.
In Seki, Gifu Prefecture, police were looking for a missing junior high school girl after a witness Wednesday evening reported seeing a female being carried away by the Fujiya River, which runs through the city. No further details regarding the missing girl were provided.
Ogaki recorded 108.5 mm of rain in an hour, while Nagoya measured 109.0 mm.
The downpours prompted the Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) to halt 41 shinkansen runs.
Northern Kyushu was forecast to get as much as 250 mm of rain through Thursday morning.
The weather agency predicted winds of up to 126 kph and waves of 6 meters in southern Kyushu and winds of up to 108 kph and waves of 5 meters in the northern part of the island. Waves of 5 meters were forecast in the Amami region in the East China Sea, south of Kyushu.
The stormy weather also halted bullet trains and shut down expressways in Kyushu, and strong winds caused blackouts in the city of Kagoshima.
source : www.japantimes.co.jp
- - - - Evening of September 04 in my valley
after the storm -
the sound of water
hurrying downhill
The sounds magnifying their echos are still a bit terrifying, but the rain was over earlier than expected. The storm has moved eastward to other parts of Japan.
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September 05 - 9月5日(水)
- - - Torrential rain continues in central Japan - NHK world news
Heavy rain continues mainly in central Japan.
The Meteorological Agency says a low pressure system downgraded from Tropical Storm Toraji moved east off the southern coast of Japan's main island of Honshu earlier on Wednesday.
Damp air is moving into a rain front accompanying the low pressure system. This is destabilizing the atmospheric conditions over a wide area, from western to northern Japan.
In Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, 109 millimeters of rain was observed for one hour, ending at 5 PM on Wednesday.
More than 100 millimeters per hour of rain is believed to have fallen in some areas in neighboring Gifu Prefecture.
The torrents of rain have rapidly swollen rivers in Aichi and Gifu and other prefectures of central Japan.
Okayama prefecture - 県内に大雨被害、避難指示も 河川増水、ＪＲも乱れる
本州付近に停滞する前線と台風17号から変わった低気圧の影響で、４日は西日本の各地で猛烈な雨が降った。岡山県内も各地で大雨となり、高梁市では土砂の崩落で民家１棟が全壊し、倉敷市など４市１町の民家８棟が一部損壊。高梁市の46世帯97人に避難指示が出されたほか、避難勧告が岡山市など４市計４２１世帯１００５人に発令された。国道など幹線道の通行止め、ＪＲの運休も相次ぎ、県民生活に大きな影響が出た。
県内の河川は朝から水位が上昇。10河川の12地点で、住民らが避難の検討を始める「避難判断水位」を超えた。旭川も上流のダム放流の影響で、岡山市の一部の水位観測所で同午前10時ごろ、避難判断水位に。後楽園周辺では、銅像「水辺のももくん」が設置された外苑南端の広場や河川敷下段の駐車場が水に漬かった。
交通面では、ＪＲの在来線で午前８時前から雨量計が規制値を超えたり、線路内に土砂が流れ込んだため、運休や遅れが相次ぎ、ダイヤが終日乱れた。ＪＲ岡山駅では、運転取りやめなどを知らせる張り紙を掲示して対応。駅員に再開の見込みを尋ねる利用者が列をつくった。
県内の高速道も、山陽自動車道の笠岡―玉島インター間、山陽―備前インター間で午前10時ごろから午後４時半まで通行止めとなり、出入り口付近が渋滞した。
source : www.sanyo.oni.co.jp
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