Will visiting Japan over Labor Day (~Sep 1) be miserably hot?
Jul 25, 2019, 7:43 pm
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I've been in some major rainstorms in Tokyo during typhoons although nothing ever catastrophic. Mind you I live in US now and I've only been there in Sept-Oct 1x or 2x over the past several years. I have family members living in various suburbs of Tokyo, and they've never experienced anything catastrophic. I don't know if it's due to Tokyo's geographical position or the fact that Tokyo area has invested heavily in floodwater management system. I don't know about Osaka too well, but remember that KIX got shut down and the KIX bridge got damaged and cars were getting flipped over during a typhoon last summer.
Jul 26, 2019, 2:59 pm
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Jul 28, 2019, 6:31 pm
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Jul 28, 2019, 7:46 pm
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I lived in PHX where the temp could get up to 110F but with 25% humidity I would’nt sweat much and it wasn’t horrible being outside. In Tokyo 33C w 85% hum feels unbearable just after 3min outside, worse than PHX. It’s not even just the numbers. I’ve been in Singapore in pretty high temp high humid situations but it somehow felt more tolerable than Tokyo.
Jul 28, 2019, 11:27 pm
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I lived in PHX where the temp could get up to 110F but with 25% humidity I would’nt sweat much and it wasn’t horrible being outside. In Tokyo 33C w 85% hum feels unbearable just after 3min outside, worse than PHX. It’s not even just the numbers. I’ve been in Singapore in pretty high temp high humid situations but it somehow felt more tolerable than Tokyo.
Jul 29, 2019, 9:35 am
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Ok that would explain why the heat feels milder at Musashi Kosugi (lots of greenery mixed in with buildings) when it's intolerably hot in Jiyugaoka a couple stations over.
