The Least Useful Guide to Fukuoka

Image retrieved from 気象庁｜台風情報 (jma.go.jp)

Typhoon No,11 is forecasted to get close to Fukuoka early next week. We have been so lucky this summer to have had very few natural disasters this summer, except for the intensive heat and skyrocketing Covid-19 infection, but we seem to finally face the threat of nature. The typhoon's central pressure is currently 920 hPa and is expected to go up to 950 hPa by the time it gets closer to Fukuoka. Maximum wind speed is expected to be 40 m/s, so I will be taking the clothesline and rubbish bins outside into the house by Sunday evening.

I heard that the Russians are conducting military exercises in the Sea of Japan until the 7th. They have their own causes and reasons to do so, but I don't think it is a good idea to be on this particular ocean in this particular period. Russian (and Chinese, and possibly Indian and so on) boys and girls could be exposed to unnecessary danger, let alone terrible seasick.  If only the Russians knew the Genko myth took place1000 years ago:  Mongolian forces tried to invade Japan from the coastlines but were blown away by typhoons　（the original Kamikaze, I guess).

台風11号が来週早々に福岡に接近しそうです。すくこの地方は今年、暑さとCovid-19を除いてはものすごい自然災害が少なかったのですが、ついに自然の驚異にさらされることになりそうです。台風の中心気圧は今のところ920hpa、この辺に来るころには950hpaになりそうです。最大風速40m/sとの予報が出ているので、日曜日中に外に出ている物干しざおやごみ箱を家の中にしまうつもりです。

ロシア軍は7日まで日本海で軍事演習するらしいけど、本当にやるのかなあ？別にこのタイミングで、この場所でやんなくても…。若い人たちが船酔いどころではない危険にさらされるのでは...。ロシア人が元寇のことを（1000年前にモンゴルの軍隊が台風にやられたというお話）知っていればいいんだけど。