Local News

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport will install four new, high-performance weather radar stations in northern Kyushu in FY 2010 to deal with the recent increase in more intense storms. Conventional stations can survey up to one kilometer in four directions every five minutes, but the new stations can survey at a distance of 250-500 meters in four directions every minute. In addition to monitoring the shape of the raindrops, the stations reduce the time differential between observation and announcement from 5-10 minutes to 1-2 minutes.