梅雨です。

It's been raining cats and dogs!

Today, the weather forecast announced the beginning of the rainy season in kansai area.

In early summer, most parts of Japan get visited by a rainy season, the so called tsuyu (梅雨), literally meaning "plum rain", because it coincides with the season of plums ripening.

The rainy season is caused by the collision of cold northerly and warm southerly air masses, which results in a relatively stable bad weather front over the Japanese archipelago for several weeks.

In most of Japan, the rainy season lasts from the beginning of June to mid July, while it affects the islands of Okinawa about one month earlier. Only Japan's northern most main island of Hokkaido gets barely affected by the rainy season.

I suppose the damp, sweltering summer will be officialy started after this rainy season... みんな頑張れ！！