Super Typhoon Noru (Now just Typhoon) August 7, 2017

I am currenly in Osaka Japan to attend meetings of the APRU Multihazards hub, the NASA tsunami early warning workshop, and the IAG-IASPEI meeting.  Staying a few days longer, we are now about to be struck by Typhoon Noru

Typhoon Noru is currently a tropical cyclone impacting Shikoku and approaching the Kansai region in Japan. It is the fourth longest-lasting tropical cyclone of the Northwest Pacific Ocean on record—the longest since Typhoon Wayne in 1986—and the most intense tropical cyclone worldwide in 2017. Noru also marked the latest occurrence of the first typhoon since 1998, reaching that intensity on July 23. Forming as the fifth named storm of the annual typhoon season, Noru formed over in the Northwest Pacific as a tropical depression on July 19.

As of August 6, two people have been killed in the southern Japanese islands as a result of the passage of Typhoon Noru.