Typhoon Saola brings record rainfall to Japan's Kyushu

Typhoon Saola traveled along the Pacific coast of Japan's main island of Honshu on Sunday after bringing record rainfall to Kyushu, with the weather agency saying the typhoon will next dump heavy rain in the Hokuriku region on the Sea of Japan.The season's 22nd typhoon was moving 170 kilometers west of Miyake Island in central Japan as of 6 p.m. Sunday, with an atmospheric pressure of 975 hectopascals, it was heading north-northeast with winds of up to 162 km per hour.In Kyushu's Miyazaki Prefecture, more than 400 millimeters of rain was recorded in the 24 hours to Sunday morning, a record …READ FULL ARTICLE