skidaisuki 0 Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 Before we even think about snowfall volumes, sweating in central Tokyo I'm wondering about when this heatwave's going to crack. Can't wait for some cooler air to come through. Suppose we'll get the mother of all thunderstorms at the end of this. That's something which we haven't really seen this year. No thunderstorms, no typhoons coming anywhere close by, really quiet to be honest. Just so incredibly hot. My hope is for a decent early start to the season, even if the heavy falls don't come until January, it'd be good to be skiing top to bottom at Hakuba before going to the UK for Christmas. SdS Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 Quote: My hope is for a decent early start to the season, even if the heavy falls don't come until January, it'd be good to be skiing top to bottom at Hakuba before going to the UK for Christmas. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 they moving Christmas this year? Link to post Share on other sites
skidaisuki 0 Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 Ha ha - the heat's affected my ability to write, Thursday... I mean, an early start. Any kind of skiing before Christmas (apart from the Karuizawa Prince variety) would be good. SdS Link to post Share on other sites
cucumber-farmer 0 Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 I'm going to work out if my cucumbers might have something valuable to say in all this. Link to post Share on other sites
pickled mushhead 0 Posted September 6, 2010 Share Posted September 6, 2010 Do tell. I hope this madness of summer we have been subjected to means we might have a bumper snow winter. Link to post Share on other sites
skidaisuki 0 Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 At least in Kanto, we have another 5-6 days of this heat level, if not more. The evenings are getting perceptibly "cooler" - cooler meaning not quite as unbearably hot as before, rather than actually cool - and then we'll see. Usually in the second half of September and early October we start to get that nice balance between warmth and freshness, but this year, when this weather cracks, I guess it's really going to crack big style. Only the likes of GoNative would have the data to tell us how hot summers relate to winter temps and snow volumes in Japan. Usually such things don't correlate in any simple way, or we'd all be weather forecasting geniuses. No reason why, if the winter weather pattern sets in early, we can't have an early start to the season regardless of the average summer temps, I guess. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 Well in '05 we had a very mild autumn. I can't remember there being any early snowfalls on Youtei in September or October. In the last week of October I remember we got up to 19 degrees! The next week in November it started snowing to sea leavel and we all remember what a crazy cold and snowy December that was. Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 No predictions here. But, all I gotta say is after this summer ...WE DESERVE SNOW!! Link to post Share on other sites
cucumber-farmer 0 Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Originally Posted By: cucumber-farmer I'm going to work out if my cucumbers might have something valuable to say in all this. They said... "it's too hot, dude". Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 Where you able to cultivate cucumbers? Where I live they all died... I mean even the pro's cucumbers died... guess they should have spoken up sooner! Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted September 10, 2010 Share Posted September 10, 2010 You have to read the entrails... Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 11, 2010 Share Posted September 11, 2010 Japanese cucumbers aren't very pretty are they. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 tasty, tho Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 Originally Posted By: grungy-gonads Japanese cucumbers aren't very pretty are they. japanese: UK: Link to post Share on other sites
@tokyo 14 Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 knobbly Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 that's what she said. BOOM! Link to post Share on other sites
sanjo 2 Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 I heard that the more 'knobs' for want of a better word on the cucumbers the more delicious. Link to post Share on other sites
panhead_pete 27 Posted September 13, 2010 Share Posted September 13, 2010 Originally Posted By: RobBright Originally Posted By: grungy-gonads Japanese cucumbers aren't very pretty are they. japanese: UK: So size doesn't matter? Link to post Share on other sites
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