Sudden Midsummer

　　My area of Japan should still be in the rainy season, but it has been unbelievably hot for June with uncomfortable humidity in the past few days. The rainy front is above my hometown and just over the 3.11 tsunami devastated area. When the front moves down south, the rainy season will finish, so my hometown is supposed to be in that season, but it's heavily hot.
　　Due to the nuclear crisis of the Fukushima Daiichi Plant, Japanese citizens are told to save electricity. Lots of people in lots of fields are trying to find ways of saving power. The authorities advise us to cultivate greens on the roof for keeping out the heat or outside the windows for making shade. Many types of clothes have been developed against the scorching heat. In most offices various casual wears are permitted. A number of business people have been freed from their neckties to raise the setting temperature of the air conditioners.
　　Fortunately, I could spend whole days in the building completely under the control of the air conditioner. I am really happy. I have a tendency to easily perspire a lot and get dripping wet. It's good for the health, but uncomfortable with underwear sticking to the skin.
　　The forecast for today's high is 34 Celsius.

(Vocabulary from comments)
Luzan  Luzon? ルソン島
acclimate
[自] (新しい風土に) 慣れる, 順応する [＋acclimate to]
[他] …を慣れさせる, 順応させる
get acclimated  慣れる, 順応する

Comments

[KUMO]

Hi, Shiroi_Tora

I appreciate you. Your words really encourage me to keep blogging.

[Shiroi Tora]

I check you site almost daily...I am always looking forward to your very interesting articles and pictures...and I am very much looking forward to your vacation articles and photos. I know they will bring back fond memories for me.

[KUMO]

Hi!, Shiroi_Tora

Thank you for your comment. You know the rough map of Shikoku! I'm going to Hakatajima island by my bicycle. I'll post some pictures later. Don't forget to check pictures, please.

[Shiroi Tora]

Sorry...I just realized I had said Eastern edge...it is more on the Southern edge.

[Shiroi Tora]

I was in the mountains of Luzan in the summer 1979. I had never been anyplace so uncomfortable...the combination of heat and humidity took weeks to get acclimated to. The nights were beautiful...but we paid for them by having to suffer the days. The jungle greatly adds to the humidity. Some of the soldiers suffered near heat stroke.

My parent in-laws live on the Eastern edge of Shikoku...a couple of hours from Kochi. I visited them almost 15 years ago. We toured Shikoku and then went to Kyushu where I had met with my Mother's family for the first time in over 30 years (My grandfather was in his upper eighties at the time and was still driving...my uncle and my cousins were taking care of him).