3rd April Japan Strom movies

The storm today reached typhoon strength. Here are the first movies - all of them are from Port Island, Kobe city (Osaka bay), Japan:

First the torrential rain - it hit us just after 13:30:



Several more movies from the port island - the gusts were so strong that the people (including me) couldn't walk:




In this one I was trying to run in the storm - quite futile exercise!



Next several movies are from walk which I took in the local park think that the storm is already finished - I was wrong!:

3rd of April Osaka Bay - Kansai Airport Gale WARNING

Update 2nd of April 2012

According to the latest forecast the gusts will reach 107 km/h around noon at Kansai Airport. Here is the link:

http://www.windfinder.com/forecast/kansai_airport_osaka

According to http://www.windfinder.com on 3rd of April around noon the wind speed will be 39 knots with gusts reaching 55 knots (55 knots = 101.86 km/h)!!!

Do not use Kansai Shuttle Boat on 3rd of April (if they didn't stop it) unless you want to have some really extreme experience!

We must be at Kansai Airport around 11:00 a.m. on 3rd of April so I may do some live reporting from there (if possible)!

1st April Kobe Weather Update

This the very first post of Japan Typhoon Watch blog.
Today is nice and sunny in Kobe. Yesterday it was quite different - gale and high waves in Osaka bay.
Here are two movies I took from yesterdays events - the first one is from our neighborhood:



And the second one from Osaka Bay (the wave breaker of Kobe Airport):



As you can see the conditions were quite tough at certain moments.