Earlier today I wrote about rain warnings issued for today:
I found the official warnings to be puzzling because the weather seemed good and stayed good for quite a while. Then, on the news this evening, I saw a video similar to the one I’ve uploaded predicting heavy rain in the middle of the night. “Oh, so that must be what the warning was about – something predicted to happen in about 12 hours!”, I thought. I was watching NHK TV but I found a similar animated prediction at the following address:
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/radame/index.html?areaCode=214
Warnings would be much more helpful with links to more information about what the warning is based on, when the bad weather is predicted to arrive, etc.
– Kirk
P.S. I saw another program indicating that the meteorology agency has trouble getting good data at sea. So, perhaps the early warning had something to do with such uncertainty. The TV program said that the weather agency was unable to predict the severity of the rain that hit northern Kyushu because they don’t have good real-time measurements of what is happening at sea. Still, adding some probability estimate or other explanation about timeframe etc. to severe weather warningss would be helpful, I think.