Typhoon No.9
Comments: 1
Ah, weather. It’s an endlessly entertaining subject.
Typhoon No.9 is bringing some big rain today. Tokyo is at 12:00 o’clock (roughly) on the red circle (which marks where the ‘phoon was at 09:00 this morning). The two more northerly circles show where the typhoon might be at 21:00 this evening and 09:00 tomorrow morning.
Typhoons are a serious business here. No. 6 that came through last week left half a dozen people dead and a few missing. This one ought to blow over by the end of the day, although sometimes they get funky and double back. Hopefully the jet stream is doing it’s thing and will suck this one out to the north-east.
Later: about 20 minutes after I posted this the rain stopped, the sky cleared, and we got a beautiful sunny day. I think it was all my doing.
•••
Posted to Oh, the Humanity • 2002.07.16 (Tue) • 11:09
Comments
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens 2002.07.16, 12:41
Usually here in central Texas, July brings day after day of drought and 100 degree (F) temperatures—and it’s not a dry heat either (though not quite as humid as Japan). If you look at a weather map, it looks like demon’s got us pinned under its ugly red thumb.
Not this year! We’ve received 17 to 30 inches of rain (half our year’s total) in two weeks. And it just keeps coming. The usual floods and deaths. But temperatures only in the 80s! Feels just like Beppu-shi. The garden, which is usually dry and dusty this time of year, is green and rampant.
http://www.zanthan.com/gardens/gardenlog/archives/000580.html
Post a comment:
Send This Story to an Enemy
• • •
