SEOUL — Just weeks after record-setting rainfall brought deadly floods to South Korea's capital, the country was bracing on Monday for Typhoon Hinnamnor, which forecasts indicated could be the strongest storm to make landfall in its recorded history. Preparations were also underway in China, where heavy rain fell in Shanghai on Monday morning, and in Japan. The typhoon was expected to bring powerful winds and rain to the western Japanese island of Kyushu as soon as Monday night. At 2 p.m. Monday, Korea time, Hinnamnor was 180 miles south-southwest of the South Korean island of Jeju, according to the Korea Meteorological Association. It was moving north, with maximum sustained winds of 112 miles per hour, and was expected to make landfall on South Korea's southern coast around 7 a.m. on Tuesday. Parts of Jeju were expected to get more than two feet of rain. The meteorological agency predicted rainfall of 4 to 12 inches nationwide and winds as strong as 134 miles an hour. On Sunday, the government issued its highest-level typhoon warning . Local news outlets on Monday showed videos of flooding on Jeju, with water reaching people's waists. The island's provincial office of education said most schools had… Read full this story
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