Everybody at Tokyo area please be careful. Predicting movement of hurricane/typhoon is still little but of inexact science. Even over East Coast of the U.S. where hurricanes hit, forecast warn people as when a hurricane will make a land. However, the exact time a hurricane make a land can be easily more than 6 hrs. off from forecast.

Forecast for Typhoon no. 19 previously forecasted to make a land sometime during Saturday afternoon, but Typhoon no. 19 is moving little slower than forecasted. Typhoon no. 19 made a land at Izu peninsula (southwest of Tokyo) around 7 p.m. Japan time on Saturday. As of 8 p.m. Saturday Japan time Typhoon no. 19 is near Odawara moving toward north-northeast with speed 35 km.hr. Current movement of Typhoon no. 19 is toward Tokyo metropolitan area.

Typhoon no. 19 is currently has wind speed of 40 meters/sec (90 miles/hr) and recording maximum wind speed of 55 meters/sec (123 miles/hr.). It is likely Tokyo has not experienced worse of Typhoon no. 19 yet.