⛴Supply chains

a rail and road network under a holiday rain shield, a saturated American interior, and a river that will not refill

Three different ways for a corridor to stop, and only one of them is a storm. In eastern Japan the Monday rain window sits on the densest rail and road network in the region during its busiest travel weekend, and the failure mode is slope and embankment, not wind — which is why the pre-positioning decision is about drainage and cut-slope inspection rather than tie-downs. Across the American interior flooding on saturated ground closes low crossings and reroutes trucking with roughly a shift of notice. And on the Rhine at Kaub the level reads 21.0 cm, status low — a loading-draft constraint that has been grinding on for weeks and has no weather event attached to it at all, which is precisely the kind of slow constraint that gets planned around badly. Central and southern Vietnam's rain adds a port and inland-road question on the same map.

carried on 43 of the last 66 editions — since Jul 5, the 10 most recent shown.