A note from the Kumamoto Deja Vu Desk (merged with the Redundancy Desk due to cost cutting): We miss our evening thundershowers, which cut the heat, provided exciting lightning, and brought the pavement temperature down so our doggy’s feet didn’t get ouchies during walk time. They’ve vanished due to the previous typhoon, whose low pressure system vacuumed up the cloud systems.
Another approaching typhoon was set to pass to the east of Japan and would have resulted in identical phenomenon, but a look at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center’s site tonight now shows it veering over Honshu just north of Tokyo - just as predicted with the last typhoon, and we all know how that turned out. So there’s still hope. (We can’t believe we’re begging for a typhoon - ANYTHING to give us a break from this heat.) - William