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© 2019 AFPJapan upgrades downpour forecasts before Tokyo Olympics
By Behrouz Mehri TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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hooktrunk2
How long will it before apps like WeatherNews can use this technology? Future cast radar is iffy at best right now. I often say to the wife, "Hey, a big storm is coming!" But nope. Disappeared, or traveled just to the north. This would be cool if the tech actually works.
sensei258
Why does everything have to be tied to the 2020 Olympics?
Yubaru
Because then the people doing the research can justify the costs! (Even if they fail!)
Goodlucktoyou
No mention of the looming massive earthquake or Fujisans eruption or 45 degrees heat. Just a spot of rain...
Aly Rustom
exactly. Heavy rain we can handle. Massive earthquakes, Tsunamis, and volcano eruptions on the other hand..
jiji Xx
I'm dubious, but even if they've pinpointed to the minute when a downpour will arrive at an Olympic venue?
daito_hak
But this is not true. How can this be possible said given the major lack of prevention and disaster mitigation which clearly was evident during the recent deadly downpours (last year or in Hiroshima), the 2011 tsunami and the Fukushima disaster or the recent earthquakes in Kyushu or Hokkaido? Japan does not have some magic measures that will prevent it against major natural disasters, this is a myth that a lot of people want to believe to reassure themselves.
Strangerland
Because we live in the real world, and not TV, and the technology you seem to think they should have already implemented is not technology that actually exists in the real world right now.
I've never seen anyone claim anything that could even be exaggerated into what you are saying. What was said to make you come up with this comment?
Derek Grebe
OK, so let's imagine this technology works (unlike the Magic Ice Barrier).
30 minutes before the Opening Ceremony, or the Men's 100 metres, or any outdoor event that thousands of people have gathered for, this system forecasts a massive downpour is imminent.
What happens? 30 minutes isn't anywhere near long enough for the cabal of 70-year-old ojisans who make up the JOC to have a tooth-sucking meeting and decide on a course of action, much less to implement it.
The best you're going to get is the assembled sports fans learn that they're going to get drenched in half an hour. Whoop de do.
That's if they even make an announcement at all. A pound to a penny says they'll sit on any inconvenient news to prevent "inconvenience".
Yubaru
Not for people not accustomed to it.(tourists)
Goodlucktoyou
cant we reverse engineer Chinese technology?