Nights with the temperature more than 25 degrees are called "tropical nights" in Japan. It has been tropical nights every night for a couple of days in the most area in Japan. This picture shows the result of AMeDAS (Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System) in which the orange points imply more than 23 degrees and the red one more than 30 degrees. Can you believe that it is the figure at midnight? This island is really tropical, isn't it? Anyway, thanks to the AMeDAS, we can get accurate weather forecast based on the sufficient meteorological data. The system, which was build more than 30 years ago, is made of 1,300 robots scattered all around the country. Each robot keeps measuring the temperature, precipitation, wind and snow fall at a regular interval and the data gathered from all the robots are compiled to be shown to public. It's so useful that I often see it instead of the rough weather forecast.
Yes. It's ridiculously hot.
Posted by: Tanaka | August 17, 2007 at 03:31 AM