When it rains in my country the water comes smashing down like waterfalls. But the thing is, Nobody uses umberelas (SWE:Paraplyer) it´s like "Oh, what the heck, I´ll dry in 30 min." Yes, we are THAT cool.
Weather in Phoenix.... hot and sunny, pretty much always. It may rain 3 or 4 times a year if we're lucky.
Ive never understood the japanese people's reliance on umbrellas. What with them being innovators and the developers of new technologies, i would have thought they would ditch cumbersome things in favour of waterproof jackets, hats or hoods. They would save a lot more space, which is useful in congested places (like tokyo!), theyre always with you, and dont need to be replaced. In the UK, outside of cities and towns, umbrellas are kind of considered 'not manly'. Many people would prefer to just get wet than walk around with an umbrella. Its different in cities like birmingham though.
Wether at my place usually spot-on. Currently we are having the monsoon, so showers kinda predictable
I use the bbc website's weather page for Nagoya. It's pretty accurate, never let me down yet. Only thing is that it underestimates the rain. A cloud with two rain drops on the site yesterday translated as a complete downpour over night here.
The acccuweather widget is spot on. Chicago gets a full range weather. Usually it's windy here but I love it.
i don't really trust the weather reports. when they say it's gonna rain i take my umbrella w/me and when i go out to work it's SUNNY, when they say it's gonna be sunny i go out wearing light clothes and BANG!! it's fu^%$ng freezing!
Looks like Shibuya. I remember grabbing an umbrella from Shibuya station for about 500yen. They have a store set up and people just pay and go! (P.S Umbrallas are real cheap in Japan and people seem to leave them lying around)
I find the weather reports around me are fairly accurate. Most people don't seem to use umbrellas, either. In FL, when it rains, it can be pouring in one area, and yet 50 ft away (~15 meters), it is perfectly dry. Usually it starts and stops very suddenly, so most don't bother with umbrellas unless it's during the rainy season.
Here in the Vancouver region of Canada, the weather changes so quickly, no one would even bother to listen the weather report... For example if the weather man/women say that its going to be sunny tomorrow, there is a 70% chance that rain is going to be pouring don on you when you step out of your door to go to school...
I remember getting caught in the rain in Akiba last august. Luckily every shop seemed to have transparent umbrellas on sale for like 100yen ^^ But yeah, about 10secs after the rain started everyone seemed to be carrying an umbrella. Here you'll see a lot of people (incl. me) just walk in the rain or take shelter t'ill the rain stops
The UK had one of the coldest and wettest summer this year. Then came the floods~ In London, rain kinda sucks. Everyone gets wet, then they travel in the tube! It literally becomes a sauna (poor me ;_;).
Texas and Louisiana weather is fairly unpredictable. We'll have a forecast for perfectly sunny skies then around noon time we'll get 2 inches of rain from a quick moving thunderstorm. Then 15 minutes later it will be sunny again. And then there are the Tornadoes. I've always debated about getting a tornado shelter but haven't followed through since I've walked away from a half dozen in my life. I've been lucky in that regard.
There is an old axiom about weather and Michigan. If you don't like it, wait a minute and it will change. Weather report pretty much the same. ^^; My fiancee still looks at people like they are crazy when they go out into the rain without an umbrella. Something a friend and her spent several minutes talking about one day in Osaka. ^^; I do enjoy the rain. Just can't stand the humidity that comes with it during the rainy season. Something I hated about Florida as well.
Weather in the united kingdom is just plain cold. I never trust the weather reports, they all lies -_-. One time they say its not going to rain, next day, looked at the reports again, still say no rain. I go outside and it started raining as i walk to college. Summer weather was really random, raining then sunny then raining so on. I guess that what people get from global warming.
Vancouver has 166 (avg.) days of rain every year lol, with 1155mm (45in.) of rain avg. again... BTW Tokyo has 55inches of rain average lol
Weather here is nice, usually sunny. Lately its been clouds and light showers though. But it's nothing compared to one day where I awoke to look out to what had once been a golf course had become a lake lol.
I like in Virginia where its sunny and hot on monday and freezing and raining on teusday
Wha? I thought guys don't carry brollies here because of their macho image or people are just lazy :-P Yeah, I can take on the rain! I'm so tough I won't fall ill and I'm not afraid of being soaked!
It's strange over here, it's always sunny and beautiful at California, 94% of the time. And I love it.
Living in Melbourne atm, city of 4 seasons. It could get windy, hot (up to 35 degree) and raining at the same time. I don't bother checking up weather forecast.
I live in Arizona, the weather is always the same.. sunny.. and dry. Its a desert (the greenest in the world), so it rarely rains. We do get a monsoon season, where it rains for .. ten minutes and we get 120mph winds.
It's either rain, heavy rain, rain with thunderstorms or no rain at all here. so yeah, they're pretty accurate.
The weather has finally turned cold here in the NorthEast, had to turn the heat on today in the house.
We've just got past about 3 or 4 days of straight rain. Can't say things grind to a halt here when it rains. Though, the number of car accidents here tend to increase when it rains as everyone puts the pedal to the floor and jumps to light speed when it rains. I never understood this?
When it rains or snows, people have a strange compulsion to drive faster? This happen to anyone else?
jojo - I don't think it's people are driving faster, it's just many are driving slower but the people that drive at their usual pace seem faster considering the condition. And people that usually think others are driving faster are usually the ones that slowed down.. and well just in general have a knack for spotting these things to criticize about. BTW it's like that in Toronto too haha.
weather reporting here is fairly average but we sometimes use the Weather Channel on the Wii for more accuracy ^__^ during the past few weeks, weather has been acting very weird. sometimes we have high hot temperatures during the rainy season which is very weird since back then we have cold temperatures during the rainy seasons
well i live in irelad need i realy say more there wos a year that it raind every day in the year and it was decleard a natrial disaster
Surprizingly good, considering this is Brazil and all. I travel every 2 weeks for my game development course across the state, and I always use the local weather report to know what's going on... not only rain-wise but temperature-wise too. Not always spot-on, but at least very close to it.
It usually sucks. A year ago, we had a big storm coming. The weather report (lead by Military officers) said that it was going to rain really hard. However, we never expected seing a hailstorm with stones the size of a golf ball. Now, you see that more than half of the cars that go around the city have huge bumps due to that event. The worst thing is that they had the radars to detect hailstorms but no report was given on what was really coming.
ah, the good old rainy season in japan. "man says rainy season has started -> umbrellas come out. Man says rainy season is over -> umbrellas left behind!" Then again, it never really rains in the far east, they just pour!! Thankfully I missed the rainy season on my one trip to Japan all those years ago. Had to contend with the hot and humid japanese summer instead...
I wonder how many eye injuries are reported yearly from umbrellas? I know about 50% of folks over here don't use them simply 'cause it's too cumbersome. The other half are universally hated as they forget to watch where the tips of the brolly are going. On the bright side: summer rain means the cover isn't really needed anyway, you can walk in the wet and dry out in 10 minutes. Our Met Bureau is pretty ok, they probably get it right about 80% of the time. That said: they don't have that much to choose from either. We either seem to have tree up-rooting, house destroying, power-pole snapping storms; or drought. Mostly drought. Day before yesterday we had record breaking rain: and it still hasn't come close to breaking the drought.
イギリスの天気予報はそんなに当たらないのですか？ しかし、この光景もキノコの集団もたいで異様ですね（笑
it still pisses it down in the usual although we did have a good summer this year.
carrying an umbrella can be quite troublesome sometimes as people tend to forget about them and leave them behind for example on the bus.
I like those clear umbrellas they sell for 200-300 yen :P It bring back fond memories of when I first went to japan in my teens :)
80% of the time, our weatherman (person) is WRONG! They get paid big bucks too! I would love to have a job where I can be wrong so much and still have a career!!!
Weather reporting here is pretty average. Usually I just look up at the sky before I head out to see if it'll rain later on...much better than relying on the weather man XD Love those see-through umbrellas btw.
WOot I love the rain. In Ohio we only have a few good storms the rest are like 2 minutes of it poring then its sunny.
Here, weather predictions are pretty exact (got to be sure about those blizzards, right? I'm not ready for this winter yet!). I don't watch TV anymore, so maybe should I go for the website of some weather channel I know. Yeah, I should do that now and check up the weather and temperature regularly so I don't end struck with the flu or turn into some live snowman in the next weeks/months.
oyazillaさん, 昔はそうなのだが、今は分かりません^^; wraith11, Good question, I see those accidents a lot. Andy, I find it odd too. Rouche, Cool!
I was in Tokyo last weekend and had the "luck" of experiencing the passing Typhoon. Sure enough, everyone else had their umbrella, while it was mostly the gaijins who were in raincoats, me included. The aftermath wasn't pretty though. Broken umbrellas littered the place after that. Do they distribute those clear umbrellas or do the locals carry 'em from home?
It never rains in Los Angeles.
i live in republic, missouri, usa. the weather people never get anything right. they like doing reverse psycology. if they say it wont rain...take an umbrella cuz it will rain! if they say it wont snow...wear a sweatshirt cuz it will snow and exc.
