Typhoon Nanmadol ripped through the Japanese archipelago Tuesday, dumping heavy rain, disrupting traffic and leaving nearly 70,000 without power as it traveled east after making landfall in Nagasaki in the morning.
The season's third typhoon is expected to reach the Pacific Ocean east of Japan and be downgraded to a tropical depression by Wednesday morning, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.Around 68,500 households suffered brief blackouts in Nagasaki and Kumamoto prefectures in southwestern Japan, while power outages were also reported in Oita, Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures,…READ FULL ARTICLE