The Weather Thread.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Pretty bad down where we are. The wind seems to blow all the muffy sticky smog from Tokyo/Yokohama down to us, so Nagoya is even hotter, steamier and stinkier than usual. Would take a good whiff of air-freshening typhoon over this any day.

[Coligny]

BigT reporting... windy but nice... little dry though...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Bit of a bummer for the commuting classes - no major disruption (= reason to delay going to work) during the morning rush hour... Though true company warriors will have gone in very early or slept under their desks since last night...

Now the train delays are starting to kick in. People probably didn't have too much trouble getting to work but getting home is going to be a bitch for a lot of them. Thankfully I'm able to work from home on days like this.

[matsuki]

Why did they stop the Yamanote line? It didn't seem thaaaaat bad?

[Mike Oxlong]

Tree blown over onto the tracks.

[Samurai_Jerk]

The power lines stopped it from hitting the tracks.

http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASJ8Q5365J8QUTIL02T.html

[Yokohammer]

Hoboy, we gots typhoon up here now. Almost scary. Lotsa windy rainy noise happening.


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[Samurai_Jerk]

Hoboy, we gots typhoon up here now. Almost scary. Lotsa windy rainy noise happening.

Yeah, despite Matsuki's impression (it didn't seem too bad from where I was sitting either) there's been quite a bit of flooding and major disruptions to transportation. On the news they said we got as much rain today as we usually get for the entire month of August.

[Yokohammer]

They've opened the town hall for evacuation and have made a "prepare for evacuation" announcement. That would apply to folk down by the coast, I assume. It's really howling.


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[Samurai_Jerk]

Some places in the Tokyo area have issued 避難準備 or 避難勧告.

[Coligny]

They've opened the town hall for evacuation and have made a "prepare for evacuation" announcement. That would apply to folk down by the coast, I assume. It's really howling.


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Check your rad counter... Readings are stuck on the high side here...

[Yokohammer]

The worst seems to be over. Or just the eye of the storm? Whatever, the rain and wind have settled down a lot.


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[Russell]

Strange experience.

Here in Kansai there is virtually nothing.

[Mike Oxlong]

This was Yokohama earlier.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20160 ... 4.view-000

[Taka-Okami]

This was Yokohama earlier.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20160 ... 4.view-000

Meh, I was in Nagoya during the year 2000 floods.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/921204.stm

[yanpa]

Typhoon Nr. 10 likes Japan so much it's coming back to say hello.

[Samurai_Jerk]

It looks like we might be getting some more love in Tokyo on Monday or Tuesday. And this typhoon has a cool name.

Typhoon Lionrock to slam Japan following deadly impact from Mindulle

http://m.accuweather.com/en/weather-new ... e/59689044

[matsuki]

...or is it just Ryan Lochte visiting Japan?

[yanpa]

Who?

Damn, don't tell me it's going to be raining continuously for the next few days...

[Coligny]

I don't know why we don't have a tornado alert yet...

Because right now shit's starting to get real...
(Toyocky might be hiding in a basement with no interwabs...)

[wagyl]

Who?

I'm guessing that he meant to refer to Ryan Lochte, paragon of racial diversity as an indicator of athletic prowess, of making false reports of armed robbery to foreign police forces after urinating on the floor of toilets in petrol stations, and of fame for reality TV appearances, and for trying to register a trademark over a juvenile catchphrase.

[matsuki]

Jeah!!

[Yokohammer]

Battening down the hatches up here in preparation for tomorrow's battering. All public schools through high-school in Miyagi prefecture will be closed. This is the first (recorded) time that a large typhoon will land from the Pacific ocean directly onto the Tohoku coast, so nobody know what it'll be like.

I hope they have things tied down at the Fukushima nuke plant ...

[wuchan]

Battening down the hatches up here in preparation for tomorrow's battering. All public schools through high-school in Miyagi prefecture will be closed. This is the first (recorded) time that a large typhoon will land from the Pacific ocean directly onto the Tohoku coast, so nobody know what it'll be like.

I hope they have things tied down at the Fukushima nuke plant ...

schools in kanto are canceling tomorrow. Back when I was a kid..............


fuck, I'm old.




EDIT: it's just rain and wind... fucking pussys.

[Coligny]

Battening down the hatches up here in preparation for tomorrow's battering. All public schools through high-school in Miyagi prefecture will be closed. This is the first (recorded) time that a large typhoon will land from the Pacific ocean directly onto the Tohoku coast, so nobody know what it'll be like.

I hope they have things tied down at the Fukushima nuke plant ...

peak at 0.28 yesterday...
so... i'd say no...

[Yokohammer]

peak at 0.28 yesterday...
so... i'd say no...

Not sure what you mean. The typhoon will land up here sometime tomorrow afternoon/evening, at something like 965 hPa.


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[canman]

Hammer, same thing here in Hachinohe. All schools closed tomorrow, I think even non-essential people are being told to stay home. They are especially worried about the typhoon hitting at the same time as high tide causing a storm surge. The farmers in the Tsugaru area are racing the clock to harvest as many apples as they can. I remember about 10 years ago a fairly strong typhoon blew through and really devastated the apple crop that year. This could be worse since it will pass right over us

[Russell]

I hope you guys go through it well.

It was all rain here today in Kansai, but otherwise not a very strong wind. Tomorrow will be sunshine. How weather can differ all across Japan.

[Yokohammer]

Yes, this is one of those "first time in recorded history" type things that could be anything from a wild ride to "that's it?" I'm hoping for the latter. I think I've had enough natural disasters for one lifetime.

It's not just fruit though. I'm wondering how the rice paddies will fare if there really is a lot of wind and water. It's almost rice harvest time so the stalks are tall and top-heavy.


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[Coligny]

peak at 0.28 yesterday...
so... i'd say no...

Not sure what you mean. The typhoon will land up here sometime tomorrow afternoon/evening, at something like 965 hPa.


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Radiation...
Normal here: 0.09
Winds from the north/tohoku: 0.15
These days up to 0.28

Threshold for the lowest 'zone' in Chernobyl is 0.3

Sooo... basically... dere's sumthang up in dee hairz...