This image taken from the Japan Meteorological Agency website shows precipitation over Japan as of 12 p.m. on Aug. 12, 2021.

       FUKUOKA -- Heavy rains continued to lash western Japan and other areas intermittently on Aug. 12 due to a stationary front near the Tsushima Strait becoming active, prompting authorities to issue evacuation orders for parts of the Kyushu region.

       The northern Kyushu region and nearby Yamaguchi Prefecture is feared to receive localized torrential rain of 50 to 60 millimeters per hour through Aug. 13. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is calling for people to be on their guard against landslides, inundations and river flooding.

       According to the agency, the amount of rainfall from the onset of precipitation until noon on Aug. 12 reached 234.5 millimeters in Satsuma, Kagoshima Prefecture, 216.5 mm in Ebino, Miyazaki Prefecture, 215.5 mm in Fukuoka's Sawara Ward, 210 millimeters in the city of Nagasaki, and 208.5 mm in Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture.

       As of 11 a.m. on Aug. 12, a landslide warning and evacuation orders had been issued for parts of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita and Kagoshima prefectures in the Kyushu region.

       The maximum rainfall forecast over the 24-hour period up to 6 a.m. on Aug. 13 is 300 mm in the northern Kyushu region, 250 mm in southern Kyushu, 200 mm in the Shikoku region in western Japan, 180 mm in the Kinki region also in the west, and 120 mm in the Chugoku region in the west and the Tokai region in central Japan, respectively.

       Heavy rain is likely to continue hitting many areas from Aug. 14 onwards. The maximum rainfall projected for the 24-hour period up to 6 a.m. on Aug. 14 is between 200 and 300 mm in Kyushu, Shikoku, Kinki and Tokai, as well as in the Kanto-Koshin region that includes the greater Tokyo area.

       (Japanese original by Hiroshi Higa, Kyushu News Department)

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