It`s incredible how quickly the temperature in Japan has gone from cold to sweltering.
Last week was Golden Week. The week before that I needed to wear a jacket during the day and layers of clothing to sustain a comfortable body temperature indoors at night.
Now, just two weeks later, I require nothing more than shorts and T-shirt even in the house – a far cry from the six layers needed in the winter.
Japanese people are proud that they have four seasons but I would contest that they have but two. Swelteringly hot and freezing cold.
Or if I were being less pedantic, a long period of intense humidity and heat followed by a short spell of pleasantly mild weather lasting at the most a month (and more accurately two weeks) preceding a long spell of intense cold weather.
This cold winter not helped in the slightest by a national mindset of confronting the cold rather than retreating from it as most Westerners/sane people are inclined to do with central heating.
I`m from an atypical climate myself. We have two seasons – a rainy season lasting from October to the middle of May followed by a short period of heat occasionally broken up with large patches of rain.
The French have a joke about the English:
-How do you know when it`s summer in England?
-The rain gets warmer.
Of course I`ll take swelteringly hot over freezing cold anyday.
Jeez, I’m totally opposite… I’d rather be able to wear clothes than feel like I’m sweating through thin layers. And yes, I moved from Missouri, where there are four distinct seasons, to Texas, where, like Japan, there are two. Why? I’m not really sure anymore. But every August, I kick myself for a full month over it.
I don’t know about Osaka, but it’s seriously cold again today out here on Awaji Island.
this website is really weird! its the stupidest thing i’ve ever read in my whole life! what were you thinking?! my little brother can write a better story about that and i bet he’s smarter than you too!
put that in your report! hahaha
Thanks for the comment hasu ping