Tsuyu

22 July 2010 • out of context
tags: earth, nature, rain, weather

Tsuyu = 梅雨
梅 (plum) + 雨 (rain) [plums ripen when it starts to rain at the end of the spring, and then it follows 40 rainy days].

“The East Asian rainy season (…) is the frontal precipitation caused by a front, a persistent east-west zone of disturbed weather during spring which is quasi-stationary and stretches from the east China coast, across Taiwan, and eastward into the southern peninsula of South Korea and Japan.”

I find out about Tsuyu at The Japan Photo Project Blog.

White March

8 March 2010 • inner
tags: lightnings, snow, weather

Today is quite an unusual day here… I live in Barcelona since 1993 and I’d never seen before something like that, the city is completely snowed! Right now it’s snowing and I’m hearing thunders and a couple of kids playing. It’s not the first time that I see snow here, but it’s really strange (maybe once in every five years) and usually the snow is quite subtle and incidental and fades away in a couple of hours. Who said global warming?