Depending on the course, Tokyo is also very damaged. A strong typhoon strikes due to global warming.
Regarding typhoon No. 15 that caused great damage mainly in Chiba Prefecture, experts said that if the advanced course was shifted 50 kilometers to the west, damage from storms was expanding in Tokyo and Yokohama, as well as several in Tokyo Bay He pointed out the possibility that the storm surge of the meter occurred and had a big influence.
Professor Kazuhisa Tsuboki of Nagoya University, who is familiar with the typhoon mechanism, analyzed that the typhoon landed near Chiba City and proceeded northeast, causing storm damage mainly in Chiba Prefecture on the right side of the windy path. It is.
If the course where the typhoon advanced was shifted to the west by about 50 km, it is possible that storms could have caused severe damage in central Tokyo and Yokohama.
Furthermore, he pointed out that seawater was blown by the southward storm blowing toward the back of Tokyo Bay, and there was a possibility that a few meters of storm surge occurred in the back of the bay.
Typhoon No. 15 approached Kanto with a very strong force, but Professor Tsubaki says that there is a risk of increasing the number of cases where such powerful typhoons approach and land in Kanto.
Professor Tsuboki said, “Typhoons that have approached and landed in the Kanto region have been strong, with central pressures ranging from 960 to 970 hectopascals, but this typhoon 15 approached 955 hectopascals below that. The temperature of seawater around Japan has risen by about 1 degree in the past 100 years, and if the global warming progresses, the seawater temperature will become even higher and unprecedented strength in each region. The typhoon is likely to land, but typhoon No. 15 has a part of it. "