Rainy Season Starts in Southern Kyushu; Rain Expected to Continue

Rainy Season Starts in Southern Kyushu; Rain Expected to Continue

The rainy season appears to have started in the southern part of the Kyushu region, the Kagoshima regional meteorological observatory said on Friday, marking the first part of the country to see the start of the season this year.

And so it begins

It's that time of year, already. Today (May 16th), the rainy season was declared in southern Kyushu, which is 14 days earlier than average, and 23 days earlier than last year. It also apparently marks the first time since 1976 that the rainy season began in southern Kyushu earlier than Okinawa, which is an interesting statistic.I do wonder what that will mean for the rest of the country, and when we'll see the rainy season commence in other regi…

Sudden spring rain. A snail was slowly moving forward while reflecting its own image in a puddle. "The rainy season is still a long way off" = 6th, Shikina, Naha City (photographed by Takeo Tomoyuki) On the 16th, the Japan Meteorological Agency announced that the rainy season is expected to have started in southern Kyushu in Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures for the first time this year. It is 14 days earlier than the average and 23 days earlie…