By Jin Yu Young and Mike Ives
Sept. 5, 2022Updated 3:22 a.m. ET
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, Hinnamnor was 180 miles south-southwest of the South Korean island of Jeju, according to the Korea