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　On July 16, the Japan Meteorological Agency announced that the rainy season was likely to have started in Kanto Koshin and Tohoku regions.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　In Kanto Koshin, the rainy season is 3 days earlier than normal and 16 days earlier than last year.　　In addition, Kanto Koshin's rainy season began seven days later than normal, and although the rainy season was shorter, the rainfall seems to have exceeded normal.　　　　　　　　　　Until the day before, it was a depressed day with rain and cloudy weather, but the number of sunny days will increase for the next week, and it will be 18 to 20 days, and in some places it will be a hot day exceeding 35 ° C It is forecast that there is.　Even in Tokyo, severe heat arrived at the same time as the declaration of the end of the rainy season, and the maximum daytime temperature was also observed at 33.2 ° C.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　In the sky, there is a "cumulus", also called a "cotton cloud", which has a clear outline unique to this season. When the surface is heated due to the intense sunlight in midsummer and a strong updraft occurs, it develops vertically and changes to a "cumulonimbus" (commonly known as an entrance cloud), and when it develops further, thunder thunder roars.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　The white summer clouds are impressive in the blue sky, which can be seen from Chuo-ohashi Bridge and Kachidokibashi.