14 Injured As Record High Winds Hit Tokyo - Reuters

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TOKYO - "Record-breaking winds struck Tokyo on Sunday, beaching a tanker, toppling trees, halting trains and injuring at least 14 people in and near the capital, police and weather officials said.

Winds gusting up to 144 km (90 miles) per hour hit Tokyo -- the highest speed since records began in 1964, the Meteorological Agency said. Most of the injured were in Chiba prefecture, east of the capital, where wind speeds were as high as 170 km per hour.

A 460-tonne chemical tanker, the Kissho Maru, ran aground on the coast of Chiba prefecture during the storm, but no one was injured and there were no reports of leaks, Kyodo news agency said.

The gales temporarily knocked out power to 32,000 homes in Chiba prefecture, but figures had not yet been collated for other parts of the region, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. All but a few hundred households had power restored within a few hours, he added."

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http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/28444/story.htm

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1. Well, the highest winds in 40 years, anyway...

I have this feeling that climate science is partly crippled, by lack of data. There are hardly any detailed data sets older than 100 years. Almost everything else is inference, from geology, tree rings, fossils, etc.

I say that as a believer in anthropogenic climate change, but we know so little. It's frightening.