{"id":1495,"date":"2017-08-07T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T11:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2017-08-07T11:59:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T11:59:52","slug":"weakening-typhoon-brings-heavy-rain-edges-closer-to-japanese-heartland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/weakening-typhoon-brings-heavy-rain-edges-closer-to-japanese-heartland\/","title":{"rendered":"Weakening typhoon brings heavy rain, edges closer to Japanese heartland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo,-A weakening Typhoon Noru churned closer to central Japan on Monday, pounding parts of the country with torrential rain, but it had lost much of the strength that at one point made it the world\u2019s strongest storm this year.<\/p>\n<p>Evacuation advisories were issued for tens of thousands of people on Shikoku, Japan\u2019s smallest main island, and roughly 230 flights were cancelled, but there were no further deaths besides two reported on Sunday and no reports of people missing.<\/p>\n<p>Noru was along the southern edge of the Japanese archipelago on Monday, with its centre just off Shikoku\u2019s Cape Muroto.<\/p>\n<p>Should it proceed on its current path, it could make landfall in the central prefecture of Wakayama later on Monday, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said, and brush Tokyo on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of Shikoku were hit with 52 mm (2.1 inches) of rain in one hour on Monday morning, with some parts of central Japan likely to see 500 mm (20 inches) of rain in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning, the meteorological agency added.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo,-A weakening Typhoon Noru churned closer to central Japan on Monday, pounding parts of the country with torrential rain, but it had lost much of the strength that at one point made it the world\u2019s strongest storm this year. Evacuation advisories were issued for tens of thousands of people on Shikoku, Japan\u2019s smallest main island, [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}