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Tiger Beer
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 Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:41 pm Post subject: Monsoon Season starting...just about now |
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Nice and warmy and sunny TODAY.
But the monsoons are coming... as soon as TOMORROW  |
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Rooster_2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject: Re: Monsoon Season starting...just about now |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
Nice and warmy and sunny TODAY.
But the monsoons are coming... as soon as TOMORROW |
Here in Korea they've already started. I welcome them. Our building claims to have air conditioning, but I've experienced otherwise. |
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Apsara
Joined: 20 Sep 2005
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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| According to NHK and other news sources, the rainy season actually started around the 4th of June (the stable front arrived over Japan then). It's just that it's not really a rainy season like they get in South-East Asia, so you haven't noticed it. It's not uncommon to have several days in a row of fine weather during the rainy season, like we have just seen. It does seem that we will be having proper rainy season weather for a while from tomorrow. |
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markle
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:04 am Post subject: |
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You're a thousand kilometres too far north for a monsoon. But thanks for that, I can't make heads or tails of the weather reports here, It's all wet umbrellas, clouds and shining suns, and thats the English langauge ones!
Got no thumbs to twiddle? |
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Hoser
Joined: 19 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| What's a monsoon? I know we get typhoons occasionally. Supposed to rain this weekend but nothing so far. |
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Apsara
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:24 am Post subject: |
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Where in Japan are you, Hoser? It was pouring in Tokyo this morning and then drizzled half the rest of the day.
The monsoon is the season of heavy rain they get in India and Southeast Asia- unlike the rainy season here where it mostly drizzles, in the monsoon you get downpours in the afternoon or evening that would drown you in about 3 seconds, but most of the day is often fine.
I'm not sure if the rainy season here is part of the same weather front as the monsoon- it would be interesting to know. |
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Hoser
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I live in Tokyo (well just on the outskirts) and we sure didn't get any pouring rain! Perhaps before 7am but certainly not after. |
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Apsara
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep, that would be it- I was up at 6 because I can't sleep late when it gets light this early- thank goodness today was the longest day and the sunrise will start getting later again. It was raining buckets when I woke up but probably stopped not too long after. |
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 2:37 am Post subject: |
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Still sunny and warm here in Northern Honshu.
So much for the weather forecasters predictions. |
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Apsara
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:36 am Post subject: |
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| Lucky you- it's pouring here and sticky doesn't even begin to describe the humidity. |
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| Apsara wrote: |
| Lucky you- it's pouring here and sticky doesn't even begin to describe the humidity. |
Damn. Hard to imagine.
Perfect weather here, got in my friend:s car, hit the highway, windows rolled down, no aircon needed yet. Ideal summer day. No sweat, no rain, just a nice dry summer heat.
Strange, as when I look at Yahoo Weather, it still says rain and thunderstorms everyday for the next 10 days. It's been saying that for the last four days, but everyday is yet another sunny perfectly warm day. |
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Apsara
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:31 am Post subject: |
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| Actually in Kyushu and Kanto today there has been flooding, landslides, people swept away by rivers etc, so it's real serious rain. |
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