Typhoon Hagibis is having its way with the 2019 Japanese Grand Prix as Formula One has cancelled all activities at the Suzuka circuit on Saturday as the tropical super-storm closes in on Japan. Typhoon Hagibis began as a Super Typhoon [Category 5 level] and was downgraded to a Category 3 over the course of the […]
The outer bands of what has been a Category 5 Super Typhoon Hagibis are beginning to reach the Suzuka circuit where this weekend’s 2019 Japanese Grand Prix is scheduled to be held. The storm has weakened to a Category 4 level but remains a powerful Western Pacific Ocean tropical cyclone. Hagibis was still 700 miles […]
Super Typhoon Hagibis remains on target to potentially disrupt the 2019 Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka circuit in Japan. The western Pacific Ocean storm is forecast to weaken before it gets to Suzuka but is currently packing 150 mph winds. As of Wednesday, Super Typhoon Hagibis was 1,000 miles south of Tokyo but was […]
Despite changing course slightly, Super Typhoon Hagibis is continuing on its course toward the Suzuka race track – site of Saturday’s 2019 Japanese Grand Prix – as the superstorm shifted from an expected landfall on Kyushu to a more direct landfall on the island of Honshu [where Suzuka is located]. Although the storm is currently […]
After winds increased 100 mph earlier today, Tropical Storm Hagibis was upgraded to Super Typhoon status and the now-Category 5 Typhoon is headed in a northwesterly direction from its current spot in the northern Pacific Ocean – directly toward a potential meeting with Formula One’s 2019 Japanese Grand Prix track at Suzuka on Saturday. The […]