There used to be a few typhoons hitting the Kanto region, every single summer.
There was the big typhoon that everyone freaked about back in October 2019, but since then I feel like there was nothing. 2020 had a grand total of zero typhoon for the first time ever, I think a small one hit Tokyo in 2021 while I was abroad, and so this year we had a wet fart of a dying tropical storm bringing a bit of rain.
Did something really change or it’s all in my mind?
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Something something El Nino / La Nina.
(I posted a more detail response earlier but I think it’s wrong so I deleted that)
The concentration of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere is changing, so the climate is changing too
Traditionally typhoons don’t hit Kanto hard because of the usual path they take.
Basically most typhoons lose all their energy pounding Okinawa and or Kyushu, but everyone now and then a typhoon will avoid Southern Japan and won’t make contact until they hit Kanto.
Now, as to way most typhoons move the way they do, it’s about atmospheric pressure and wind patterns.
Clearly it was Covid. /s
Are you trying to jinx it?
3 years is not enough to be a pattern. It depends on the high pressure systems that the typhoons keep bouncing around off of. Right now they send them in through the south, desperately looking for the last two mountains that haven’t mud-slid into the village in the valley below. Also, now you’ve jinxed it and we’ll be pummeled by successive monsters starting next week. Thanks.
Yup just hits Kyushu now. But the work tomorrow will be futsuu douri. Dang!!!
It’s a real shame – that 2019 stay home from work, pull down the shutters and stock up on water typhoon party was fun!
Same applies to Osaka… I came in at the end of 2019… and I still have to know what a typhoon even is…
Don’t jinx it.
This’ll be a fun thread to visit in a few years.