At the same time, Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, with historic amounts of rain expected

Typhoon Nanmadol hit southwestern Japan with gusts of up to 234 km/h and poured more than 400mm of rain in less than 24 hours. The storm officially reached land around 7 p.m. local time when its periphery, associated with severe storms, approached the city of Kagoshima, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) reported.

At least 20,000 people spent the night in shelters in kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures on the island. National television NHK, which collects information from local authorities, reported that 7.7 million people were killed in the crisis. people were advised to move to shelters or find refuge in healthy buildings to escape the storm.

Evacuation warnings are optional and authorities sometimes struggle to persuade people to move to shelters before extreme weather conditions.

"Please stay away from dangerous places and, please evacuate if you feel even the least sign of danger," Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wrote on Twitter after calling a government meeting because of the storm. "It will be dangerous to evacuate at night. By Sunday evening, utility companies reported that nearly 200,000 homes in the region were without power. Trains, flights and ferries were cancelled until the storm passed, shutting down even some mixed stores, which usually remain open all the time and are considered disaster relief.

At the same time, Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, historic amounts of rain were expected, the Storm triggered landslides, power grids were cut off, and floods dug asphalt off roads, the Associated Press reported. Hundreds of people were evacuated or rescued across the island as flooding rapidly increased. The rivers of brown water flowed cars, the first floors of the houses and even the runway of the airport in the south of the island.

Weather officials said the storm threatened to dump "historic" amounts of rain on Sunday and Monday, with up to 76 cm possible to fall in eastern and southern Puerto Rico. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center on Sunday night, "Fiona" is centered 75 kilometers (45 miles) southeast of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph.

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