Climate of Japan
It
is a country with high humidity and rainy, it has a temperate climate
with 4 different well-defined seasons, thanks to the distance with
respect to the equator. Anyway the climate of the North is slightly tempered cold (Hokkaidō) with strong summers and heavy snowfall in the winter, the center of the country is hot, humid summers and winters are short and slightly subtropical South (Kyūshū) with long, hot, humid summers and short, mild winters. The climate is sometimes affected by
the seasonal winds caused by the cyclone and anticyclone centres that
form on the continent and in the Pacific (Hawaiian cyclone or
anticyclone), generating winds from the continent to the Pacific in
winter and from the Pacific to the continent in summer.
There are two primary factors in the climatological influence: its proximity to the Asian continent and ocean currents. The climate from June to September is hot and humid tropical wind currents that come from the Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia. These
currents precipitate large amounts of water at landfall, so summer is a
time of significant rainfall, which begin in early June and lasts about
a month. Followed by a period of heat and at the
beginning of August until early September, a period of typhoons, which
pass through Japan 5 or 6 of them and come to produce significant
damage. The annual precipitation of rains is 100
to 200 centimeters, but between 70 and 80 percent of these are
concentrated in June and September.
In
winter, the centers of high pressure of the Siberian area and the
centers of low pressure in the North of the Pacific Ocean, generate cold
winds that pass through Japan from West to East, producing, significant
snowfall in the Japanese coast of the Japan Sea. As
the winds collide against the mountain ranges in the Centre, high
altitudes eventually precipitate the moisture from these winds in the
form of snow and going through the Pacific coast of the country arrive
without carry significant amounts of moisture, so they are not the main
factor of snowfall on the Pacific coast. This also causes on this coast, winter weather is dry and days without clouds, contrary to winter on the West Coast.
View of the headquarters of the Bank of Japan.
There are two ocean currents that affect the climate model: the warm Kuroshio current and the cold Oyashio Current. The
Kuroshio current flows across the Pacific from Taiwan and passes
through Japan pretty North of Tokyo, is a current that carries much heat
to the coast this.
Source: Climate of Japan