SENDAI (Kyodo) The Tohoku region has entered a transitional phase into autumn without an official end to the rainy season being declared, local weather authorities said Monday.
This is the first time since 2003 the Sendai District Meteorological Observatory has failed to identify the end of the rainy season in the region. The agency has been making such announcements since 1951.
The observatory usually declares that the rainy season has ended in the entire region after concluding it is over in both the northern and southern parts of the Tohoku region.