Astro-meteorology of Typhoon Wipha in Japan

At least 13 people have been killed after a powerful typhoon passed close to the Japanese capital, reports say. Typhoon Wipha caused landslides and flooding on Izu Oshima island, south of Tokyo, with several houses destroyed. "It is the strongest typhoon in 10 years to pass the Kanto (Tokyo area) region," Hiroyuki Uchida, the Japan Meteorological Agency's chief forecaster, told journalists on Tuesday.

The storm brought strong winds and record rainfall - 122mm (4.8 inches) in one hour on Wednesday morning - to Izu Oshima island, which lies some 120km (75 miles) south of Tokyo.

The ingress chart is probably the most important when it comes to the prediction of weather. What is an ingress chart? It is a chart drawn for the  moment  when a planet moves exactly into the first degree (00°00'00") of a particular zodiacal sign, and that chart is then calculated for a particular location one happens to choose.

Here is the chart for Mars ingress into Virgo (on 15^th October)  drawn for Tokyo. Notice the powerful Mars-Neptune opposition aligned with the meridian axis. Neptune [2pi49] in tropical Pisces  conjunct the stars of the Southern Fish (Piscis Austrinus) and  those of Cygnus, the Swan and Pegasus, the Flying horse bring winds, clouds, air and seas together. Diana Rosenberg associates the stars in this are with “natural disasters of great scope… including tsunamis, storms and high winds”[1]

Piscis Austrinus was titled Notus from Greek notos, 'south', Notos or Notius is the god of the South Wind, a warm and very moist wind.

The astrological influences of the constellation given by Manilius:

"Then rises the Southern Fish in the quarter of the wind after which it is named" [Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century AD, book 1, p.39].

[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg [v.2, p.670-672]

[2] http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/PiscisAustralis.html

P.S.

It is interesting to note that the same planetary opposition of  Mars-Neptune is once again emphasized in the upcoming Full Moon eclipse chart for Tokyo. Here the opposition is square the horizon axis - the second of the two sensitive axes, the first being the meridian.