joshnii 2 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 So the 3 month forecast says, apparently. Just what we want with the power shortages! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Hot in summer? Here? Nooooooo! But I'm always clean, dry and smelling fresh as daisies. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 a 50% chance of it being hotter than normal......nice Link to post Share on other sites
7-11 2 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 They be good odds there! Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Only a 20% chance predicted it will be cooler than average. 80% chance it will be average or warmer (most likely warmer). This is for southern Japan. Up north in Hokkaido most likely to be around average. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Hokkaido always looks so enticing... good snow, cool, not many earthquakes..... Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Lots of Australians though. what is normal temperature though in Kanto anymore? Tend to think of it as 35c now or thereabouts. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I really wouldn't want to be in Niseko or the like. Tons of places where there's almost no-one, including Japanese, I'm sure. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Originally Posted By: muikabochi I really wouldn't want to be in Niseko or the like. Why not? It's awesome here in summer! And unlike winter not so many damned Aussies! Plenty of bloody poms though so there's a very active football team. They won the regional comp last summer. There's also a cricket team and a rugby team. And plenty of keen road and mountain bikers. Plenty also into running who compete in races around the island. A close little community who also have some great weekends camping down at Toya or on the coast around near Shakotan. The hiking in the region is awesome with nowhere near the amount of humidity as down south. What's not to love?! I'm really, really going to miss not being here for this coming summer.... Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Don't know, can't really explain. Just wouldn't! Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 You talking to live or just a holiday? Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 To live. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I didn't have a huge choice about living here really. I hate english teaching (and my wife hates it even more) and getting jobs not related to that are not overly easy to come by, except around here. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 sounds like heaven GN....if only I could convince my mrs to move Don't like the idea of walking into bears though, however rare that may be. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I've spent 7 summers here and do a lot of hiking each season. Never seen one. Just do what the locals do and wear some very annoying little bells on your backpack. Nearly drives me mad and keeps the bears away supposedly. You do have to put up with all those damned Aussies in winter though! Also for those of you who have been well shaken recently in the near 8 years I've been up here I think I can remember only feeling an earthquake about 4 or 5 times. And none of them were more than a 3 on the Japanese scale. A gentle rolling rather than any violent shaking. Link to post Share on other sites
mitchpee 10 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver sounds like heaven GN....if only I could convince my mrs to move Don't like the idea of walking into bears though, however rare that may be. TB, I have had a few encounters with bears in North America. They literally want nothing to do with you unless you are in almost physical contact proximity of their cubs. Then it gets scary, but the likelyhood of that is very very low. You should be much more worried about being killed while driving than mauled by a bear. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Once it gets over 35C I don't think its possible to notice the difference in temperature. Shizuoka is hot hot hot in a normal summer... not too worried about a degree or two warmer. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 GN, I could handle the Aussies, I spent a year in Oz and survived! Mitch, yeah i know that its unlikely to ever get in a situation with one, I just have irrational fears over wildlife that can kill you......the worst we have in Scotland is people from Glasgow! Mrs wouldn't entertain it though, she doesn't like the cold........I, for all my macho chest beating and meat eating have no authority in my house! Its not the heat that bothers me, its the humidity. I've endured 40 degree heat in Australia and didn't mind it so much, but when its humid and hot then its a problem Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 You big blouse! Can't you use fear of earthquakes and radiation as a good excuse? Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Hot again. I don't like the sound of that. Not good news for the electricity people either. On the bright side, maybe it will encourage a few more Tokyo folks to get up to Tohoku for a cool off trip. As for Hokkaido, the eastern and northern sides don't get much snow but are very cold for about six months. A bit too bleak for me. The island as a whole is pretty much classic inaka, so many of the young people who can leave the small towns dotted about will do so as soon as they can, even if its just for Sapporo. Areas like Niseko and Furano will at least keep many of their young and attract other young Japanese from elsewhere. It must be hard to live in a town with few young people. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I'd love to meet a bear close up Hard to imagine these dudes don't like little tinkling bells! Link to post Share on other sites
Mintyjulep 0 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 I don't like summer much, but I like cold summers even less (unless it's cold because I'm in the opposite hemisphere and it's winter!) - so yay for you guys that you should get a decent summer! We're setting in for a long cold winter to match our long hot summer, I saw this fantastic article recently, written by someone who knows lots about snow sports and tourism. http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/4911859/South-Island-tourism-hurting my favourite bit is the caption "EMPTY SEATS: Queenstown has reported a significant slump in tourist numbers since the February 22 Christchurch earthquake." Fact: it's autumn Fact: those seats are empty because the ski season hasn't started yet Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Since we are talking about bears.... If this summer is anything like last summer in Shizuoka I am going to be grumpier than a bear with a sore ass. I was planning on escaping back to Canada for the summer but as circumstances would have it that plan is out. Argh...Japanese summers. Link to post Share on other sites
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