Japan Weather

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.

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...

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

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.

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...

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!

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.

I use the JMA's site because my town/area is so unimportant, no one has the weather for it. I end up looking at the nearest 2 cities and averaging it to get an idea of what my weather will be like. The temperature is pretty accurate but the weather isn't because the mountains can trap the rain.

I live in london but I really don't care if i get a bit wet, I quite like walking around in drizzle and if it's totally pissing it down I just don't go out or if i have to, wear a coat. Never actually owned an umbrella.

It's been a really wet summer this year in the south east of blighty,which i don't mind as a hate hot weather. Sky news give very good weather forcasts so you can normally leave home preparedfor the day ahead.

It's been a really wet summer this year in the south east of blighty,which i don't mind as a hate hot weather. Sky news give very good weather forcasts so you can normally leave home prepared for the day ahead.

Weather reports I've seen vary so much you wonder if they've got the right country. Its true no-one here carries a brolly, in fact they don't even have anything like a raincoat - surprising considering how much it rains... when in Japan I carry a folding umbrella because when it rains, it /rains/, and no clothing is going to protect you...

The one thing I'm not looking forward to in Japan is the rain. But I guess it rains everywhere. Certainly no shortage of rain in the UK. I don't really watch reports or anything, just if it's the season I make sure to wear something with a hood so if I get caught atleast my hair stays nice and dry (that's all that's important really. A bit of rain won't melt me but it will mess up my hair) I'd love to have one of those clear and cheap umbrella's you get in Tokyo :P

Weather reports here are really good thanks to the technology the TV stations have. Unfortunately the weathermen all suck. 1 hates nice weather and gets excited only if there is a giant storm or crappy weather coming. The other station, the guy's like a used car salesman both in appearance and demure, and 3rd station the guys like a auctioneer talking so fast it might as well be in Japanese :)

many times it rains so hard here that ur shoes and pants will be all drenched and you'd get that yucky feeling for the whole day.

The weaather reports here are pretty accurate I guess...

Used to be pretty bad, but now the predictions are getting better.
I guess this is a worldwide phenomena, since the evolution of weather prediction affected the whole world.
You know, satellite pictures and stuff.

I usually take my umbrella with me in cloudy days, but sometimes I wonder if it's really worth it.
The case is the exact opposite from what Danny described for Seattle... here where I live, it usually pours down a lot and the rain usually comes with strong winds.

So it's useless to carry an umbrella because you'll end up soaked anyways...

I'll be honest..

we don't put too much faith in our weather forecast...

but it has been raining a bit recently...well..okay it was like a monsoon yesterday but today was tolerable!

During days with intense sunlight some people around here carry umbrellas for the shade. It's a good idea but a bit out of the ordinary.

Similar in Taiwan, but just drizzle back here in Portland.

In my area, wind usually comes with the rain, so umbrellas are pretty useless unless you are trying to be Marry Poppins.

If they predict rain, they are spot on, if they predict a sunny day, they are usually wrong:P

In Japan, I will bring an umbrella if it looks like rain cause I don't like to get everything in the store or on the train wet and bother other people. Sometimes its too darn windy to use an umbrella. For those days I'll try and stay on base. American's do not use umbrellas very often and I never did. When in Rome...

For weather, I usually go to weathercity.com/jp or something like that. I use google sometimes as well. They are generally fairly accurate 2 days ahead.

we dont really use umbrellas here when it is raining, we just run about in the rain.

"fetish for rain", haha, i like that, its funny

When I first moved to SoCal I noticed....

1) A light drizzle rates apparently Team Coveragee,
2) There is no end to the whining about ANY moisture falling from the sky,
3) Even 5 minutes of sprinkles screws up traffic for the rest of the day
4) Southern Californians CAN drive in the rain, it's the new residents who came from out of state which fail to realize that, the rain brings up ALL the oil and grease collected on the roads and they can't expect to stop very easily.

The weather here is very unpredictable >.<
You could put the washing on the line at 11am and find it soaked within an hour ^^;
The reverse is also true...