Reply #39: It was a record typhoon season in Japan

[Art_from_Ark]

with 10 typhoons making landfall in the country, including 5 that hit the island of Shikoku (another record, I have heard). There was also a very late season typhoon earlier this month that, even though it was supposedly just a tropical storm when it hit the Tokyo area, produced some extremely strong winds (the strongest I've experienced in my decade+ stay in the Tokyo area) and also produced the most rapid temperature rise recorded in Tokyo (by some accounts, the temperature rose from 38 to 68 in a matter of minutes).

Right now, though, it's fairly typical end-of-the-year weather.