强大的台风“黑吉比斯”正在逼近日本大陆，迫使该国当局发布疏散警告，超过100万人撤离，这是推特上日本流行的标签。
尽管风暴已经减弱，专家说台风可能是自1958年台风伊达造成1200多人死亡以来最具破坏性的袭击之一。美国广播公司新闻报道。
目前，台风的最大持续风速约为每小时120英里，相当于萨菲尔-辛普森飓风等级的3级飓风。
据日本气象厅(JMA)称，哈吉比斯的中心——在菲律宾语塔加拉语中是“速度”的意思——位于小八仙岛西南约200英里处。
风暴预计将于今天晚些时候在名古屋附近的本州岛东南海岸登陆，最大持续风速约为100英里/小时。AccuWeather报道。
尽管风暴还没有登陆，但它已经影响到本州南部和中部的一些地区，带来了每小时60到80英里的强风和暴雨，有线电视新闻网报道。
据当地政府称，事实上，已经有一人死于这场风暴，另有五人受伤。
“一名49岁的男子在一辆翻倒的微型卡车中被发现并送往医院，但已被证实死亡，”东京东部千叶县市原消防局发言人八世弘树周六早上说。
JMA已经向包括东京地区在内的几个县发出了五级警告——这是最高级别的警告。气象学家预测，哈吉比斯可能会排放前所未有的降雨量，可能与1958年艾达时期的水平相当。
当局警告洪水和山体滑坡的可能性，敦促大约164万人撤离家园。据日本广播公司NHK报道，建议疏散的地区包括大东京一些人口最稠密的地区。
随着风暴逼近大陆，日本许多社交媒体用户发布了天空的图片，天空变成了怪异的紫色和粉色。今年早些时候，当飓风多里安擦过美国东海岸时，佛罗里达也出现了类似的现象。
“台风前日本的天空很美。“看起来很平静，但这实际上是暴风雨即将来临的一个信号，”一名推特用户乌云·胡斯纳在一篇帖子中写道。
专家说，奇怪的紫色天空是日落时太阳发出的光被飓风风暴云以特定方式散射的结果。
“这些颜色是由一种叫做瑞利散射的现象造成的，”国家气象局的气象学家斯科特·科德罗之前告诉记者新闻周刊。"大气中的分子和小粒子改变光线的方向，导致光线散射."
“散射影响来自天空的光的颜色，但是细节——颜色——是由光的波长和粒子的大小决定的，”他说。
据美国广播公司报道，台风已经造成旅行中断，运营商暂停了许多子弹头列车和地铁服务，1600多个航班停飞。与此同时，日本东海岸的许多商店、企业和工厂已经关闭。
这场风暴也导致了重大体育赛事的中断。原定于周六举行的日本一级方程式大奖赛的所有练习和资格赛均已取消，两场橄榄球世界杯比赛也是如此。
就在上个月，另一个强大的台风“法赛”袭击了本州的坎特地区——包括大东京地区。这场风暴是自1958年伊达袭击该地区以来最强的台风，造成三人死亡，147人受伤。法赛损坏了成千上万栋建筑，并造成大范围停电。
哈吉比斯形成于西太平洋，10月5日成为热带风暴。据AccuWeather报道，就在两天后，风暴迅速增强成为“超级台风”——最高持续风速至少为每小时150英里——之后，它在周一和周二袭击了关岛和北马里亚纳群岛，造成了广泛的破坏。
台风和飓风是热带风暴的两个不同名称。“台风”是用来描述西北太平洋形成的台风，而“飓风”是用来描述北大西洋和东北太平洋形成的台风。
#PRAYFORJAPAN: POWERFUL TYPHOON HAGIBIS APPROACHES HONSHU MAIN ISLAND, TURNING SKY EERIE SHADE OF PURPLE
Powerful Typhoon Hagibis is approaching the Japanese mainland, forcing authorities in the country to issue evacuation warnings for more than a million people as the hashtag #PrayForJapan trends on Twitter.
Although the storm has weakened, experts say the typhoon could be one of the most destructive to strike the country since 1958, when Typhoon Ida killed more than 1,200 people, ABC News reported.
Currently, the typhoon has maximum sustained wind speeds of around 120 miles per hour, equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the center of Hagibis—which means "speed" in the Philippine language, Tagalog—is located around 200 miles southwest of the tiny island of Hachiojima.
The storm is expected to make landfall on the southeastern coast of the main island, Honshu, near the city of Nagoya, later today with maximum sustained winds of around 100 miles per, AccuWeather reported.
Despite the fact that it hasn't made landfall yet, the storm is already affecting some southern and central areas of Honshu, bringing strong winds between around 60 and 80 miles per hour, as well as heavy rainfall, CNN reported.
In fact, one person has already died as a result of the storm and five more have been injured, according to local authorities.
"A 49-year-old man was found in a toppled mini truck and sent to hospital but was confirmed dead," Hiroki Yashiro, a spokesman from the Ichihara Fire Department, in Chiba—a prefecture east of Tokyo—said on Saturday morning.
The JMA has issued level five warnings—its highest level of alert—to several prefectures, including some in the Tokyo area. Meteorologists are predicting that Hagibis could dump unprecedented amounts of rain, potentially matching the levels experienced during Ida in 1958.
Authorities are warning of the potential for flooding and landslides, urging around 1.64 million people to evacuate their homes. Among the areas advised to evacuate are some of the most heavy populated areas of Greater Tokyo, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported.
As the storm approached the mainland, many social media users in Japan posted images of the sky, which had turned eerie shades of purple and pink. A similar phenomenon was seen earlier this year in Florida as Hurricane Dorian grazed the U.S. east coast.
"Beautiful sky in Japan before the typhoon. Looks peaceful but it's actually an indicator that the storm is coming," one Twitter user, U'yun husna, wrote in a post.
Experts say that the strange purple skies are the result of light from the sun at sunset being scattered in a particular way by hurricane storm clouds.
"The colors result from a phenomenon called Raleigh scattering," Scott Cordero, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service, previously told Newsweek. "Molecules and small particles in the atmosphere change the direction of light rays, causing them to scatter."
"Scattering affects the color of light coming from the sky, but the details—the colors—are determined by the wavelength of the light and the size of the particle," he said.
The typhoon has already caused travel disruption, with operators suspending many bullet train and subway services, and grounding more than 1,600 flights, ABC News reported. Meanwhile, many shops, businesses and factories on the Japanese east coast have closed.
The storm has also caused disruption to major sporting events. All practice and qualifying sessions for the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix, which were scheduled for Saturday, have been cancelled, as have two Rugby World Cup matches.
Just last month, another powerful typhoon, Faxai, struck the Kantō region of Honshu—which includes the Greater Tokyo Area. The storm was the strongest typhoon to hit the region since Ida in 1958, killing three people and injuring 147 others. Faxai damaged tens of thousands of buildings and caused widespread power outages.
Hagibis formed in the West Pacific, becoming a tropical storm on October 5. Just two days later, the storm rapidly intensified to become a "super typhoon"—maximum sustained wind speeds of at least 150 miles per hour—before it battered Guam and the northern Mariana Islands on Monday and Tuesday, causing widespread damage, AccuWeather reported.
Typhoons and hurricanes are two different names given to tropical storms. "Typhoon" is the term used to describe those that form over the northwestern Pacific, while "hurricane" is the term given to those that form in the North Atlantic and northeastern Pacific.
