Japan | Huge eye of Typhoon Ampil threatens Tokyo with heavy rains and strong winds

Arab Weather - The latest satellite images from the Arab Weather Center indicate the development of a tropical cyclone with a huge eye over the waters of the western Pacific Ocean near Japan. This cyclone is known as (Ampil), and is classified as a second-class cyclone, surrounded by huge amounts of thunderstorm clouds laden with heavy rains that threaten Japan in the next 24 hours.

According to the latest observations received from the Meteorological Monitoring Center regarding Cyclone Ampil:

Maximum wind speeds around the eye wall are now 177 km/h, which is very strong winds.
The lowest observed value of atmospheric pressure at the center of the hurricane's eye is 960 millibars, which is a very low value.
The maximum height of the waves observed is 16 metres, which is the height of a multi-storey residential building.
- Latitude of the super typhoon: 35 North.
- The longitude of the giant hurricane: 140 East.

The area of Qatar, the eye of the hurricane, exceeds the area of 4 Arab countries

The hurricane's area and geographical extension exceed 56 square kilometers, which means that its area exceeds the area of Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Lebanon combined. It is scientifically and meteorologically known that the eye of a hurricane is an area where air collects and clouds build around the eye, which means that the eye is a very low-pressure area that violently builds its wall, but is completely stable and calm. The eye crossing usually deceives residents with stable weather and sunshine, thinking that the hurricane has left, but it soon crosses the most violent eye wall in the hurricane and destroys everything in its path with torrential rains and strong winds.

Tropical cyclone moves towards Japan, threatens Tokyo

Experts at the Arab Weather Center said that the latest outputs from global computer models show that the tropical cyclone will move towards Japan within the next 24 hours, feeding on the warm surface temperature of the Pacific Ocean, which reaches 31 degrees Celsius, a fertile environment for the development of cyclones. The cyclone is expected to pass along the coast of Japan and hit Tokyo with heavy rains, strong winds and raging waves, threatening floods, torrents and landslides during its passage before continuing its path into the Pacific Ocean.

Arab Weather experts raise several question marks about the classification of the tropical system and its developments in the coming days, as it is not possible to give a definitive forecast of the intensity, because tropical systems are very complex weather conditions and are very moody in their development and decline. It is possible that the tropical system will develop again according to what is happening on the ground, and computer simulations may suffer from confusion due to the specificity of this type of system, so it is necessary to follow the developments that are issued during the day and the coming days as soon as possible.

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