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Japan to see average to warmer weather during October-December

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After the last few weeks on Honshu, this is welcome news. I have gone from shorts to a raincoat, aircon to heater and lost 5 umbrellas as these are apparently everybody's property.

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The Meteorological Agency staffer charged with wetting his finger and sticking it in the air has been outside again. Do his efforts have any validity? They will be forgotten by December anyway. But in the short term we are reminded of his existence and sterling efforts.

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There is a huge glut of natural gas already. This warmer weather is going to make that worse and probably drive prices down further. Oh well. Natural gas consumers can continue to smile and producers have another three months of reduced demand to deal with.

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not a good thing

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Last year's ski season was the worst in a generation. I do hope we avoid that again, both for the sheer joy and the local economy.

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Hopefully, that means that they will extend the cool biz season...?

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I second that, Powderb.

As long as we have way a lot more snow than last season, specially in Hokkaido and Nagano I'm good. But if it's like last season, then I'll be just as miserable.

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And if the forecast is out to lunch, will there be a retraction and apologies published?

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I think these three month forecasts have little meaning; the forecasts for the next day are often incorrect. They said the summer would be hotter than usual and it wasn't. Now they say there is a 40% chance of it being warmer than average. If you tossed a coin to make a prediction you would have a 50% chance of being correct. Saying the probability is 40% isn't much different.

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Doesn't that mean there is a 60% chance of there not being average to warmer weather?!

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Doesn't that mean there is a 60% chance of there not being average to warmer weather?!

Maybe. They may have a third category (we don't know) that is "around average" weather.

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40% chance of average to warmer weather means 60% chance of average to cooler weather . It's just not PC to forecast cooling.

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Hey. This guy is right 60% of the time, all of the time.

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Last winter (Nov. to April)...I only used two 18 liter containers of kerosene. about ¥3,000. one reason is I get good sun on both floors of my place. secondly, I have a kutatsu table...didn't even turn it on half the time... now open windows, no shirt, in shorts...nice...sure can't do this in Connecticut! (in the fall~winter~spring)...

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