Typhoon Mindulle brings gusts, heavy rain to Japan's Pacific coast

Typhoon Mindulle brought violent winds and heavy rain on Friday to the Izu Islands and the Pacific coast of eastern Japan, disrupting air and train services.The Japan Meteorological Agency warned that the storm, already causing flooding on some roads, would continue to batter the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan through Saturday morning.It said the typhoon is expected to weaken into an extratropical depression east of Japan by Saturday evening.As of 9:45 p.m. Friday, the typhoon, with an atmospheric pressure of 965 hectopascals at its center, was located 260 kilometers east of Choshi in …READ FULL ARTICLE