Japan to see average weather this summer, Meteorological Agency says

Good! I hate the humidity and heat in summer.

I may be no Einstein, but if "Eastern Japan, including the most densely populated Tokyo area, will have a 40% chance of average temperatures", how exactly does the writer reach the conclusion that Japan "will see an average summer" this year? In my books, the chances of a "non-average" summer would be bigger....

What I also would have liked to know is the effect of the anticipated El Nino on the Japanese weather.

;)

@rowiko

I'm certainly no Einstein either, but I guess that if the chances of an average summer are 40%, then the chances of a cool or hot summer will be 30％ each. Which leaves the average summer the most likely. I think....

The %'s don't make sense... 40% chance and we jump to the conclusion it is going to be average? What about the dominant 60%?

Well a cooler Kobe in the summer is fine with me!

Summer in Kyushu sucks so bad. Not looking forward to it at all.

Sure, but the average summer is awful. Hate hate hate the humidity.

El Nino? Japan's weather pattern? Normal? Too many 'ifs'.

Last year, the rainy season saw me get wet one day out of forty-five, autumn's typhoon season was hardly that. Perhaps it was just my luck.

BUT, this article lacks depth, as Rowiko68 points out. Let's see a forecast that brings all that pontificating to some semblance of reasonable expectations.

The weather bureau also reiterated a forecast made earlier this month that there is a 50% chance that an El Nino weather pattern could emerge this summer.

50%? So...El Nino weather pattern could emerge this summer, or not... I like them odds.

＠bildeberg

Despite being in the south, I don't think Kyushu summers are worse than anywhere else (unless you're in Hita).

I had to go to Tokyo last August, and that was horrible: crowds, traffic, and the "heat island" effect.... Give me Fukuoka and its sea breeze any day.

What's "average" these days? The last few summers have been off the charts.