Typhoon No. 19 becomes `` East Japan Typhoon '' No. 15 becomes `` Boso Peninsula Typhoon '' Japan Meteorological Agency

Typhoon No. 19 becomes `` East Japan Typhoon '' No. 15 becomes `` Boso Peninsula Typhoon '' Japan Meteorological Agency February 19 17:38

Last year, Typhoon No. 19, which caused record-breaking heavy rainfall in eastern Japan and Tohoku and caused severe damage such as flooding of rivers, was named by the Japan Meteorological Agency as `` East Japan Typhoon, '' and a large-scale power outage occurred mainly in Chiba Prefecture. Called Typhoon No. 15 as "Boso Peninsula Typhoon".

Typhoon No. 19 landed on the Izu Peninsula last October, passed from Kanto to Tohoku, and recorded rainfall on a half-day at 120 points, making it the first place in the history of observations. Heavy rainfall.

In this heavy rain, special warnings of heavy rain were announced in 13 cities and prefectures in total, floods of rivers and landslides occurred in various places, and the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications concluded that about 90 people were dead or missing. I am.

The Meteorological Agency has named this typhoon No. 19 "East Japan Typhoon in Reiwa 1".

Typhoon No. 15, which landed near Chiba City in September last year, caused a record-breaking storm that completely destroyed more than 4,000 houses, mainly in Chiba Prefecture, and caused a power outage of up to 900,000 or more in various parts of the Kanto region.

We named this issue "Reiwa 1st year Boso Peninsula Typhoon".

The Japan Meteorological Agency names a typhoon after the Typhoon Okinoerabu, which caused heavy damage to Okinoerabu Island in Kagoshima Prefecture in 1977.

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the standard for naming typhoons is about 1,000 houses with half or more destruction, about 10,000 houses inundated, and considerable human damage, and Secretary Yasuo Sekida said, "Learning lessons based on names. I want to try to convey it. "