{"id":134305,"date":"2020-07-30T16:15:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T07:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=134305&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-07-30T16:15:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T07:15:17","slug":"hours-of-sunlight-half-of-normal-last-month","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/hours-of-sunlight-half-of-normal-last-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Hours of Sunlight Half of Normal Last Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Meteorological Agency reported the hours of sunlight declined by almost half in the Kyushu area between Jun. 25 ~ Jul. 27. Daylight hours during the thirty-three days totaled 88.5 hours (-47% from average) in Fukuoka City, 70.8 hrs (-56%) in Saga, and 89.1 hrs (-47%) in Nagasaki. The agency advises local farmers to be cautious as the limited amount of light might severely affect the growth of their crops. Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.data.jma.go.jp\/obd\/stats\/data\/mdrr\/tenkou\/alltable\/sun00.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">JMA<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/tenki.jp\/forecaster\/deskpart\/2020\/07\/16\/9056.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tenki.JP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rainy-season-tenjin-WEB-1.jpg?resize=1400%2C819&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"819\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rainy-season-tenjin-WEB-1.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rainy-season-tenjin-WEB-1.jpg?resize=300%2C176&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rainy-season-tenjin-WEB-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C599&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rainy-season-tenjin-WEB-1.jpg?resize=768%2C449&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Catch all of our Kyushu &#038; Fukuoka local news reports on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Meteorological Agency reported the hours of sunlight declined by almost half in the Kyushu area between Jun. 25 ~ Jul. 27. Daylight hours during the thirty-three days totaled 88.5 hours (-47% from average) in Fukuoka City, 70.8 hrs (-56%) in Saga, and 89.1 hrs (-47%) in Nagasaki. The agency advises&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29452,"featured_media":134306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-134305","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-environment","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/134305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}