Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Daily Weather in Japan

My country's capital city is Tokyo. The 3-day forecast will cover the following days, March 17th, March 18th, and March 19th. On March 17th, the high will be 63 degrees while the low will be 48 degrees. There is a 0% average chance of rain on this day. On March 18th, the high will be 65 degrees while the low will be 56 degrees. There is an average of 25% chance of rain this day. On March 19th, the high will also be 65 and the low will be 52. There is an average of 50% chance of rain this day. The average pressure over these three days is 0.05. The pressure throughout these three days increases. The average wind speed over the three days is 20mph. The wind speed increases over this 3-day period.

There are a few clouds spread throughout Japan in the capital of Tokyo. They are all low warm clouds in Omitama (south of Kasama), as well as Yokohama. There are not clouds in Narita, where it looks to be sunny. On this map, there are no cold clouds shown. Today, there is no medium-heavy precipitation. There are spots that are light green, indicating light precipitation. Mostly downtown and southern Tokyo, as well as in Kamakura. The surface characteristics that I thought were most notable was the river that runs through and somewhat around Tokyo, called Tohoku-Joetsu-Shinkansen. There is also the Tone river north of Tokyo. If you look northeast of Tokyo, there is Mount Tsukuba located under the Mito line as well. Not shown in this screenshot, up in the northwest of this picture, mountainous terrain begins to form because this is where Mr. Nyoho and Mount Nantai are located.

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This picture is zoomed in on Japan. There are only 4 isobars running through Japan, and they run horizontally. There are only H pressures directly affecting Japan, and it is centered around Japan's main isobar (1024mb) which is right through Tokyo. There are no L pressures. There are cold fronts coming towards Japan coming towards the country on the west side. In Japan, it then continually gives off a cold front that it being pushed southeast off the island.




This is the zoomed out picture of Japan. You can see that Japan is placed not on the map but would be just directly under it. I think this map is important to show because Russia has many H and L pressures but the ones that are closest to the southern part of the country are H pressures and bring the cold fronts to Japan. On the southeastern part of the map, you can see the cold front moving down, where it will eventually come into contact with Japan. The isobars observed in this specific map are centered on the tips of Russia and are centered on island locations.














2 comments:

  1. Hi Jessica! The daily temperature in Japan within those 3 days are warmer than that of France. The percent of precipitation in Japan is also higher than France, as there was only about a 10% chance of rain in France. The pressure in France is significantly higher than Japan, with 30.32. In Japan, there was only one high pressure present, unlike in France where there were low and high pressures.

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  2. Hey, Jessica! Even though Japan is just slightly north of the Philippines, the weather is way cooler in Japan than it is in the Philippines. The light cloud coverage and light precipitation are definitely similarities that the two countries have, though, because the Philippines was predicted to have only an 8% chance of precipitation at the most during the 3-day forecast. Japan is also mountainous like the Philippines! That cold front that is pushing south definitely impacts both Japan and the Philippines together, so we're in the same boat on that one, too! The biggest difference between the high and low pressure regions is that Japan is located in a high pressure region, whereas the Philippines just barely misses that high pressure region to the north and instead is met with a lower pressure region from underneath. If the Philippines had been just a little higher, the islands would be in the same high pressure region that Japan is in!

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