Interesting Tidbits: It's Typhoon Season

Courtesy of sciencecodex.com

Oh hey guys! What have you got to look forward to tomorrow?
 Well I've got this charming fellow to the left. That's Tropical Storm Yagi cruising around the shores. Yagi's actually not so terrible for one of his kind. I guess if you look at him on a picture like that he looks worst than he is. He won't kill anyone or destroy any houses or flip any cars, but he may stop a few trains from running and make a few salarymen curse. Is it a big deal? No.
 It's typhoon season, folks. Everyone's expecting it to rain for every damn day in June, and that's the way it is every month of June. June is rainy, end of that. We'll be seeing tropical storms flying north and south and every which way, making it quite hard indeed to plan much for the coming few weeks (not that I don't have any plans. I have a few exciting ones.)

Me, wet and miserable last year's season.

So how does the rainy season affect our daily lives? Well, attendance at the gym sure as hell drops. I often get sent home early so that I can catch the trains before they jam when the storms get really bad. The streets become a graveyard of flipped umbrellas. Also, I get wet.
 But as it is, Japan's just prone to hurricanes and typhoons and all matter of storms throughout the year, not just in June (although that's when we come to expect the mother-lode to hit.) In fact, hurricane Jelawat, the terrible one that flipped cars during its wake, hit on September last year. I was outside that day.
 We'll see though. So far the weather hasn't been bad at all. But the rain outside will only worsen as Yagi comes around, and every person in Tokyo can do nothing but bend over the table for a whole month.