Powerful Typhoon Khanun brought heavy rain to Japan’s Ryukyu Islands. In a series of NOAA20 satellite images from July 31 to Aug. 8, 2023, the storm traveled to China's eastern coast and then to the southern tip of Japan. Read this article for more:
. Forecasters have warned that all of South Korea is expected to feel the effects of the storm, with as much as 600 millimeters of rain expected to fall in some areas.
Khanun is the sixth tropical storm of the 2023 typhoon season in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. Colorado State University meteorologists tracking Khanun’s—a metric that incorporates both intensity and duration—report that the total ACE for Northwest Pacific storms was 122 as of August 7, 2023; the average at this point in the season over the past three decades is 88. With an ACE of 25, Khanun accounts for one-fifth of the total for Northwest Pacific storms in 2023.
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