I hope Japan doesn't get hit with any kind of hurricane this year.

[shraby]

With the situation there, it would be extra devastating. It would spread that contamination far and wide, possibly contaminating every square inch of the islands.
I've been worrying about this for some time.

[Drale]

1. Well it wouldn't be a Hurricane,

It would be a Typhoon, but that is neither here nor there. Yet that would be terrible.

[truedelphi]

2. Japan is not a tropical nation.

It doesn't have hurricanes.

In fact, during the same week that the earthquake and tsunami hit, they were having snow.

[Drale]

3. Hurricanes can happen anywhere,

Its more about winds and ocean temperature then air temperature.

[subterranean]

4. It certainly gets typhoons. Usually in August and September.

The typhoons are usually not at their strongest when they reach Japan, but they can bring copious rainfall. They tend to impact southwest Japan more than the tsunami-hit region.

[GKirk]

5. Do you base this fear

on anything that you have read about? Or is it just a fear based on your own ideas
about what a typhoon might do?

I can't really think what a typhoon might do to spread (I assume your fear is about) nuclear contamination.

[shraby]

6. The grandaddy of all typhoons...I think it was a 6 hit that

region a few years ago. Right now, they certainly don't need high winds, a storm surge or anything else that will move the debris that is laying all over the place and much is contaminated with radiation, not to mention the water also is contaminated.
I'll google and get the particulars on that typhoon and bring it to this thread.

[shraby]

7. Here are the particulars. I found it in wikipedia:

Typhoon Tip (international designation: 7920, JTWC designation: 23W) was the largest and most intense tropical cyclone on record. The nineteenth tropical storm and twelfth typhoon of the 1979 Pacific typhoon season, Tip developed out of a disturbance in the monsoon trough on October 4 near Pohnpei. Initially, a tropical storm to its northwest hindered the development and motion of Tip, though after it tracked further north Tip was able to intensify. After passing Guam, it rapidly intensified and reached peak winds of 305 km/h (190 mph) and a worldwide record low sea-level pressure of 870 mbar (hPa, 25.69 inHg) on October 12. At its peak strength, it was also the largest tropical cyclone on record with a diameter of 2,220 km (1,380 mi). It slowly weakened as it continued west-northwestward, and later turned to the northeast under the influence of an approaching trough. Tip made landfall on southern Japan on October 19, and became an extratropical cyclone shortly thereafter.

U.S. Air Force Reconnaissance flew into the typhoon for 60 missions, making Tip one of the most closely observed tropical cyclones.<1> Rainfall from the typhoon breached a flood-retaining wall at a United States Marine Corps training camp in the Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan, leading to a fire which killed 13 Marines and injured 68. Elsewhere in the country, the typhoon led to widespread flooding and 42 deaths, and offshore shipwrecks left 44 killed or missing.