The Weather Thread.

[wagyl]

Haha yes a few people have suggested he might be transitioning.

[yanpa]

This lady, who I have linked to before, is in Presteigne, which is a bit of Wales which so much wants to be English it sticks a long, thin finger of territory in. It still doesn't stop every street having bilingual name alternatives.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TitlisGarden
It doesn't look too unpleasant, and I've been keeping track each week. She is about to go on hiatus, though.

Yes, don't think I've ever been there but it's very much on all the local road signs.

[yanpa]

Haha yes a few people have suggested he might be transitioning.

Looks like the kind of person my parents regularly invite for coffee (that's "coffee" in the English sense, which generally explains why the UK is still not really part of Europe). And my parents are good friends with the retired lesbian bus driver couple.

[dimwit]

So 30 something people are dead after a freak storm in Hiroshima.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/nati ... -hiroshima

This followed another storm about 13 years ago in Hiroshima where another 30 people died. Meanwhile Kochi got ten times much rainfall over a five period in early August and no one died. What gives?

The answer seems to be that Hiroshima seems to have what can only be called a fetish about building communities on alluvial fans. I seriously wonder if anyone in the prefecture has ever heard of a hazard map.

[yanpa]

So 30 something people are dead after a freak storm in Hiroshima.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/nati ... -hiroshima

This followed another storm about 13 years ago in Hiroshima where another 30 people died. Meanwhile Kochi got ten times much rainfall over a five period in early August and no one died. What gives?

The answer seems to be that Hiroshima seems to have what can only be called a fetish about building communities on alluvial fans. I seriously wonder if anyone in the prefecture has ever heard of a hazard map.

I'm sure there is one, but either people don't know about it or they have stuck their heads so deep into the alluvial loam they can't see it.

I know there is one for Chez Yanpa because it appeared in the mailbox a few weeks ago. Didn't know about it when we bought the place, on the other hand I came up here right after some heavy precipitation to see where all the dihydrogen monoxide particles go once their free fall is interrupted by terra firma and despite not being a trained geologist, the map didn't tell me anything new. Or in other words, I may be an octopus of few principles, but one is never to buy land on a slope, immediately below a slope, on a flood plain or anywhere which used to be a water feature. (If I was really sane I'd also never buy land within ashfall distance of a dormant megavolcano or near a potentially active faultline, but hey you only live once...)

[Coligny]

or anywhere which used to be a water feature.

Not much of a sailor it seems...

There goes the empire...

[yanpa]

So 30 something people are dead after a freak storm in Hiroshima.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/nati ... -hiroshima

This followed another storm about 13 years ago in Hiroshima where another 30 people died. Meanwhile Kochi got ten times much rainfall over a five period in early August and no one died. What gives?

The answer seems to be that Hiroshima seems to have what can only be called a fetish about building communities on alluvial fans. I seriously wonder if anyone in the prefecture has ever heard of a hazard map.

I'm sure there is one

Hazard maps for the affected areas.

[dimwit]

Okay, so there is a hazard map. And then they went right on allowing developers to build right in the middle of the hazards. I wonder what a country with functional civil courts would say about that.

[matsuki]

Okay, so there is a hazard map. And then they went right on allowing developers to build right in the middle of the hazards. I wonder what a country with functional civil courts would say about that.

Certainly not the "shoganai" we hear here

[wagyl]

Okay, so there is a hazard map. And then they went right on allowing developers to build right in the middle of the hazards. I wonder what a country with functional civil courts would say about that.

Most likely that they have published adequate warning of the hazards.

In litigation central, they still allow building development on the shaky, geologically mobile California coast. In fact, after San Francisco was razed to the ground, they went and rebuilt on the same spot. Including timber buildings abutting timber buildings.

[dimwit]

In litigation central, they still allow building development on the shaky, geologically mobile California coast. In fact, after San Francisco was razed to the ground, they went and rebuilt on the same spot. Including timber buildings abutting timber buildings.

No. Building on hazard land is verboten. The main reason for this is insurance companies. First, no company will insure you if you build in a place like that and secondly, if the city were to permit such development they would open themselves up to a shit load of litigation. In addition, earthquakes are a different kettle of fish. Buildings in Southern California, can and are built to proper earthquake resistance standards these days. As far as I know there is no mudslide resistance stardard other than not building something in the path of them.

The big problem is what do you do with developments that has already been built before the hazard was recognized. There were a few older looking building in the Hiroshima sites but there were clearly some new developments as well.

[wagyl]

Is New Orleans hazard land?

Also, for the sake of your health, I do not advise calling people from San Francisco "Southern Californians."

[matsuki]

Also, for the sake of your health, I do not advise calling people from San Francisco "Southern Californians."

He's not just referring to SF... most of So Cal is on or near faults so earthquake resistant construction is pretty much the norm.

I can't help but wonder if many of these landslide have to do with all the concrete coated hills and such. Much like the tetrapods, giving the locals a false sense of security while uglyin' up the landscape at their expense.

[dimwit]

Is New Orleans hazard land?

Also, for the sake of your health, I do not advise calling people from San Francisco "Southern Californians."

First, the Southern California reference waqqs supposed to be to Los Angeles, but then I reread your comment and edited it to read San francisco without checking it again. Sorry.

As for New Orleans, the answer is yes and no. There are certainly areas of New Orleans that were built on hazard land and to this day they remain occupied with numerous lawsuits flying around as a result. Cities can however be built around or below sea level and not be hazardous. One only needs to think of Amsterdam or Venice for example.

Alluival fans owe there existence to flash flooding which frequently happens in Japan. So the question is can you build a structure that can resist 3 ton boulders smashing into the foundations? You possibly could, but not at the cost any developer would be willing to pay.

[matsuki]

Sort of related but during obon we had a customer bitching about "grate thieves." You know how there are tons of open cement gutters along the roads for lemurs to get stuck in while driving? According to this customer, every time she bought/placed metal grating over the gutters that bordered her property, they would get stolen within a matter of weeks. I think the blame game went to Chinese at first but more recently, lazy students stealing shit to sell on online.

[wangta]

I remember my old area in Japan had some real torrential downpours last year in October. It always seemed to be raining that month on the 25 minute walk to school from the 'close by' freezing icebox of an apato I was forced to rent.

I know it was October because I remember turning up absolutely drenched not a few times that month despite having a large brolly that supposedly shielded me. I particularly remember the Halloween period as the cunt I unfortunately worked for only made a comment when I came into the office soaked that week along the lines of "Make sure you change your costume before teaching other classes."

That craphole forced the teachers to wear Halloween costumes for the children's classes and we were supposed to change for the others scheduled that day - which sounds reasonable but for the fact that the ugly bitch running the school who certainly didn't need any change to look like the repulsive witch she was, had scheduled most classes back to back with no breaktime. But somehow we were supposed to tell our adult students and our junior high to uni students to wait while we got changed - even though we weren't allowed by the bitch to do that.

Sucky weather for a lot of last year, megasucky job for all of it.

Oh yeah and while we're also on the subject of earthquakes - I lived in a vulnerable area but was told by the local city hall that it was fine in the case of an earthquake/tsunami. Why? Most of us had 10 minutes to run to the top of the local high mountain for safety. Tough shit that said mountain was 30 minutes away by walking and was a slippery and steep ascent.

[yanpa]

So on balance you enjoyed your time in Japan?

[wagyl]

Something tells me wangta would have a wow of a time, anywhere he went.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Something tells me wangta would have a wow of a time, anywhere he went.

He's a glass half full kind of guy .... as long as that glass has been filled by the lovely ladies from Two Girls One Cup.

[Coligny]

Either wezza gunna very die soon...

Or Toyocky is like toats a real pussy...

こちらは、豊橋市です。8月23日、5時11分、愛知県に竜巻注意情報が発表されました。愛知県では、竜巻発生のおそれがあります。
竜巻は、積乱雲に伴って発生します。雷や風が急変するなど積乱雲が近づく兆しがある場合には、頑丈な建物内に移動するなど、安全確保に努めてください。
今後の情報については、気象庁等の情報をご確認ください。

こちらは、豊橋市です。８月２３日、１２時３６分、愛知県に竜巻注意情報が発表されました。愛知県では、竜巻発生のおそれがあります。
竜巻は、積乱雲に伴って発生します。雷や風が急変するなど積乱雲が近づく兆しがある場合には、頑丈な建物内に移動するなど、安全確保に努めてください。
今後の情報については、気象庁等の情報をご確認ください。

こちらは、豊橋市です。８月２３日、１３時３６分、愛知県に竜巻注意情報が発表されました。愛知県では、竜巻発生のおそれがあります。
竜巻は、積乱雲に伴って発生します。雷や風が急変するなど積乱雲が近づく兆しがある場合には、頑丈な建物内に移動するなど、安全確保に努めてください。
今後の情報については、気象庁等の情報をご確認ください。

[Russell]

Either wezza gunna very die soon...

Or Toyocky is like toats a real pussy...

こちらは、豊橋市です。8月23日、5時11分、愛知県に竜巻注意情報が発表されました。愛知県では、竜巻発生のおそれがあります。
竜巻は、積乱雲に伴って発生します。雷や風が急変するなど積乱雲が近づく兆しがある場合には、頑丈な建物内に移動するなど、安全確保に努めてください。
今後の情報については、気象庁等の情報をご確認ください。

こちらは、豊橋市です。８月２３日、１２時３６分、愛知県に竜巻注意情報が発表されました。愛知県では、竜巻発生のおそれがあります。
竜巻は、積乱雲に伴って発生します。雷や風が急変するなど積乱雲が近づく兆しがある場合には、頑丈な建物内に移動するなど、安全確保に努めてください。
今後の情報については、気象庁等の情報をご確認ください。

こちらは、豊橋市です。８月２３日、１３時３６分、愛知県に竜巻注意情報が発表されました。愛知県では、竜巻発生のおそれがあります。
竜巻は、積乱雲に伴って発生します。雷や風が急変するなど積乱雲が近づく兆しがある場合には、頑丈な建物内に移動するなど、安全確保に努めてください。
今後の情報については、気象庁等の情報をご確認ください。

Why do you post this in the weather thread?

This news report says that Ebola is spreading rapidly in your city...

[Coligny]

Well...
that DO explain the color then...

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[Grumpy Gramps]

Hmm, yeah, if we all have to huddle together in that sturdy builidng in Aichi prefecture because of the tornado, then Ebola could be a real risk

[Coligny]

Moar ebolanado... Ermargerd, is in ebolanado alley...
HALP SEND MOAR TP!!!

こちらは、豊橋市です。８月２３日、１７時３１分、愛知県に竜巻注意情報が発表されました。愛知県では、竜巻発生のおそれがあります。
竜巻は、積乱雲に伴って発生します。雷や風が急変するなど積乱雲が近づく兆しがある場合には、頑丈な建物内に移動するなど、安全確保に努めてください。
今後の情報については、気象庁等の情報をご確認ください。

[yanpa]

Any surfer-molesting sharks sighted recently?

[Coligny]

Any surfer-molesting sharks sighted recently?

He wuz on tourist visa, got sent to Naritanamo jail. Never heard of again...

[Mike Oxlong]

Seems we have the next of the season bearing down on our locations...

[matsuki]

Fung-wong? The Chai-nee attacking!

[Mike Oxlong]

Extremely excited to announce that we may have broken the sub-tropical night curse. Some weather stations reporting a temperature of 24℃. Not sure if I believe it, but more refreshing weather than we've had in some time...

[Taro Toporific]

Global Warming?

Tokyo solves Global Warming!

Temperature readings in Tokyo set to drop
japan-news.com (The Yomiuri Shimbun) 11/26/14
The temperature readings in Tokyo this winter are expected to drop because of the relocation of the observation site for Tokyo's weather...more...