{"id":140530,"date":"2021-05-12T13:54:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T04:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=140530&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-05-12T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T04:54:06","slug":"rainy-season-begins-in-southern-kyushu","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/rainy-season-begins-in-southern-kyushu\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Season Begins in Southern Kyushu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On May 11, the Japan Meteorological Agency announced the rainy season has begun in Southern Kyushu, nineteen days earlier than on average. The second-earliest rainy season on record is also anticipated to bring heavy rainfalls in the regions of Tanegashima, Yakushima, and more in the morning of May 12. <\/span><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbc.co.jp\/news\/article\/2021051100049008.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MBC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.data.jma.go.jp\/fcd\/yoho\/baiu\/sokuhou_baiu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JMA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-140531\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3567.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3567.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3567.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3567.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3567.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo by Fukuoka Now<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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The second-earliest rainy season on record is also anticipated to bring heavy rainfalls in the regions of Tanegashima, Yakushima, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":140531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-140530","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/140530","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\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}