gloomy september

It has been cloudy or rainy for more than a week. I have not been able to photosynthesize. Due to the energy shortage, I couldn't update my blog till today.

Weather is one of the biggest problems for travelers. You may know that June in Japan is a rain season. However, so is September. September could be even worse because typhoons often hit Japan in this month, but seldom in June.

American counterpart for typhoon would be hurricane. I'm not sure about meteorological differences between them two. They might be the same phenomenon with different local names. While hurricanes are named with female names, typhoons are numbered. The number starts from one every year in the order of occurrence (not hit).As of today, the thirteenth typhoon is on the ocean east of the Philippines.