Chiba Prefecture

あんまり今はおらんけど、でも他の地域に比べて花火大会のやんちゃさんは結構いたね。

あの千葉の一宮にな、 8月にでっかい花火大会あんねんやんか。もう海沿いでぶわーって見れるやつ。それもすっごいね、車とかな。それはめっちゃ集まるから。ほんなら普段会社、普通の会社、普通の会社の社員さんが駐車場にしてる広いスペースあんねん。あの辺スペースいっぱいあるから、そこを花火の日は無料で開放してたりしてはんねん。

そうね。

それ素晴らしいよね。ここどうせ空いてるから、そういう時止めてくださいって無料でやで。

I'm Raja Pradhan with the news from Tokyo.

The Japan Meteorological Agency says squall line clouds, which are bands of tall, heavy rain clouds, were behind last month's record downpours in Chiba Prefecture.

Chiba City, east of Tokyo, got about three times its normal rainfall for the entire month of August in just half a day on the 13th.

The agency's Meteorological Research Institute says a large amount of water vapor flowed toward the prefecture at that time and rose above a cold air layer over the Kanto region.

It's one of the shortest rail lines in all of Japan.

It runs in Chiba Prefecture.

They're basically famous for doing shit like this.

All sorts of wacky collaborations and bake sales anything you can think of to try to keep this tiny fucking rail line that basically makes no money alive it's a private like it's a tiny private railway that does not really get any government assistance what i understand they go out of the they go out of their way to try to keep this line alive

Meanwhile, amid the heavy downpours, a woman was taken to a hospital after her car became submerged in floodwaters while passing through an underpass in the Kashima district of Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture, at around 7.50 a.m. She was unconscious, according to the city fire department.

24-hour rainfall totals as of 9.50 a.m. reached 243.5 mm in Hanazono, Kitayubaraki, Ibarki Prefecture, 235.5 mm in Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, and 199.0 mm in Yamada, Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture.

Central Tokyo recorded 151.0 mm by 6.30 a.m. team uses AI to study colors seen when black and white top is spun.

For 200 years, researchers have been trying to solve the mystery of why people see colors while viewing black and white patterns of a spinning top.

Right.

And then you look over at Japan, just outside Tokyo in the Chiba Prefecture.

The conditions described there are just unimaginable.

Record-breaking torrential rain, where nearly three times the average August rainfall fell in just one single day.

It dumps historic, deadly, concentrated volumes of water all at once.

You've completely nailed the mechanism.

That is exactly why Chiba Prefecture gets three times its monthly rainfall in a day.

Or why the Midwest gets hammered after a thousand year flood.