. >>> for more, our meteorologist, robert speta joins us. robert? >> let's first start off by talking about what is really causing this heavy rainfall across japan today. now the main factor is this frontal area, we can see it on the satellite picture stretching from western japan to hokkaido. that's what's triggering the heavy rainfall. there's a few other things going into this, which is why we're seeing such incredible totals, we have this the high pressure to the south, pushing moisture around the western side of it onshore, so that's bringing all that moisture, causing the heavy rainfall. instability aloft, we have the cold air in the upper atmosphere, that causes the thunderstorms and then we start to see the high rain totals, not to mention the fact of the lifting out here. especially into western japan, out towards portions of western hanchu, these areas are on the western slopes of the mountains, you get the moisture inflow pushing upslope, it squeezes it out like a sponge. ahead of the low pressure area, we have the moisture coming in off

meteorologist robert speta has more. robert. >> we have been watching this system pushing off there into the south china sea and then off there towards southern china. actually impacting the philippines over the weekend. this is tropical storm rumbia, actually most recently downgraded to a tropical depression. but when it came ashore here on tuesday morning, it was a severe tropical storm. and it had packed quite a punch. i want to show you video coming out of the gaun dong area where this pushed ashore. you can see these winds really kicking up there where it made landfall here on early tuesday morning. it did disrupt traffic. you can see some of these trees knocked down due to high winds continuing to push through. ahead of the storm many authorities asked boats to return to harbor because these waves were just absolutely scary coming ashore here, up to about two to four meters high. many people had to get out and rescue residents due to the coastal and low lying flooding. good news as far as rumbia it is no longer a tr

meteorologist robert speta has more. robert. >> let's first start off by talking about this and that frontal area continuing to linger overhead not just in japan but south korea. you see that big band of cloud cover still bringing heavy showers. show you video out of yamaguchi here into japan. a visual of how heavy the showers are. the past 24 hours in this city alone about 44 millimeters. 80 millimeters in just an hour spans some of these storms are packing. still the risk of landslides coming out of this as well. what is happening into the upcoming weekend with this front because right now it is still overhead. but it should start to lift off here towards north going into friday and saturday. so the heaviest showers are going to push in across portions of korea, parts of northern japan here. about 150 millimeters still going to be expected though. and still these short-time heavy rains will continue to pop up. even on the pacific coast. what's starting to lift this off to the north is the high pressure down there toward

meteorologist robert speta is here with details. robert. >> we are watching this new system just spinning up just off the east coast of luzon. it's expected to become a tropical storm in the next 24 hours. it will pull off towards the north actually means wild oxen, where it is impacting in the philippines. you're going to see heavy rainfall into northern luzon and also the inflow of moisture wrapping around the storm system across the west coast and down towards versailles, there's a risk of flooding out of this storm system as it continues to linger off the coastline. but then as we go into the next several days, it's going to continue to push off here towards the north. and there is a potential of this impacting taiwan as a tropical storm, drop in some heavy rainfall. typically that wouldn't be so much of a problem, but we just had typhoon soulik come through on friday, it made landfall here in northeastern taiwan. ground out here already saturated. we saw some totals over 600 to 700 millimeters within a 24-hour period out here. s

meteorologist robert speta with more on that. robert. >> we are watching the heat set in due to the rainy season front we've been talking about all week. it's going to start to slowly lift off there farther to the north. still in south korea and ech towards northern tohoku expecting about 100 to 150 millimeters of rainfall from this itself. but it's also going to usher the high pressure in and southern winds coming off the mountain, inland areas where the warmest temperatures are going to be because we have these down slope winds, as the winds roll down the hills they warm up as they go. very similar to what you see in santa ana winds in california, up to 37 degrees expected in some areas here. it is going to be heating up. the front lingering on the sea of japan coast extending towards the north. also into central and eastern china. past 24 hours we've seen rain reports here about 120 to 140 millimeters of rain. that threat is still going to be there going into saturday and even sunday in isolated areas out here. as far as temper

meteorologist robert speta is here with more. robert. >> let's start with what's going on here into yamagata prefecture, specifically where you saw a tremendous amount of rainfall from this low pressure area that pushed through on wednesday going into thursday. about 150 millimeters fell in some areas out here. you also saw report of a landslide. i want to show you video of some flash flooding that took place. now, this was a driving school there into northern japan where this river flooded,over flowed its banks. about 50 people including some students evacuated towards the second floor of this school building while the driving course itself completely submerged. so obviously classes are canceled, couldn't carry on. good news, everybody was rescued. no injuries coming out of it. but, yeah, we've been seeing that heavy rainfall. we had the report of landslide earlier on today. good news as well, this low pressure area that brought all that rain, it's moving off towards the east giving way to some high pressure. that's actually brin

meteorologist robert speta has been following the havoc there. robert. >> let's start off by talking about what's going on into central and northeastern china where we have this heavy rainfall continuing to occur. not just there even towards north korea actually so far into july pyongyang has recorded about 490 millimeters of rainfall. typically by this time of year you see about 310. so it is well above average and definitely still the risk of flooding out here as this front does continue to linger overhead. and about 100 to 200 millimeters still expected going throughout the next several days. and that is per day going through the weekend. so flooding is going to be a continued risk here in not just out there towards the northeast, down towards the southwest, sichuan province, we've been seeing the heavy flooding there. we had video earlier tonight that showed you severe flooding and landslides that resulted in two deaths. we want to continue to watch that. farther towards the east into japan, the weather's clearing up here. we have this high pr

robert speta has more on that. >>> we have been watching the tropical storm off the coast of the philippines here still moving west though and really just ever so slowly, about ten kilometers per hour at this time where it's expected to make landfall friday evening into saturday once it pushes overhead. eventually in the northern vietnam by saturday evening. but really, rain now winds 65, gusting up to 90 kilometers per hour. it's on weaker end of the intensity and expected to become possibly a severe thunderstorm by the latter part of the week. the main threat is going to be the heavy rainfall. we're talking about the monso monsoonal flow, you could see 60 to 80 millimeter thursday into from in the philippines, including the manila area where the schools have been closed into thursday because of this heavy rain still forecasted to impact the area. landslides expected out of this. still seeing showers across the indochina peninsula. we want to keep an eye on it for the further risk of flooding. to the north we have a stationary boundary impacting south korea towards japan. this is still goin

meteorologist robert speta is here with more on that. robert. >> we are continuing to watch this storm impacted the philippines over the weekend. and some grave news coming out of this area, actually a boat overturned, upwards of seven deaths, many of them children due to this tropical storm. also tornado into kaesong caused some injuries out here. just due to the system that pushed overhead. now conditions are improving behind it. you're going to see rough weather in hay non. gusting up to 126 miles per hour, actually winds gusting up to 80 miles per hour there into the hong kong area away from the center of circulation. but really the worst of the weather and also the high waves are going to be out here about four meters high going into tuesday morning as the system starts to push ashore. it's not just winds and waves, we're seeing heavy rainfall. in some areas about 100 to 200 millimeters expected going through tuesday, but the good news is that this is going to be cut off from its moisture source. and as it does so it is really going

meteorologist robert speta is here with the latest. >> we are continue to watch our latest tropical storm continuing to roll off towards the north. it is just north of the philippines, south of taiwan and bringing heavy rainfall across northern portions of the philippines coming ashore. also towards southern taiwan we're seeing the outer rain bands push ashore. this is the late place you want rain because last friday we saw landfall of the typhoon and that brought tremendous amount of rainfall across the country. as this pushes through it zkz like that is going to be happening. with that said, it does have winds gusting up to 90 kilometers per hour but not expected to maintain its intensity. a slight weakening before it makes landfall here along the southeastern coast when it makes lawful there. but the main threat with this is going to be that considered rainfall coming out of this. southern taiwan and then eventually after that pushes ashore. we want to watch this but let's pull back and look at the rest of china. you have been seeing an incredible amount of rainfall this year. it's tha