{"id":82349,"date":"2012-10-04T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&p=28970"},"modified":"2016-04-01T03:07:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:07:17","slug":"hay-fever-forecast-for-spring-2013","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/hay-fever-forecast-for-spring-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Hay Fever Forecast for Spring 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Japan Weather Association has announced its 2013 hay fever forecast, with good news for Kyushu! Next spring, the pollen count for Kyushu and Shikoku areas is going to be around 70% lower than usual! Elsewhere in the country\u2013 from Chugoku to Hokkaido it will be higher than usual, and Tokyo, Kanto and Tohoku can expect 1.5 times more pollen in the air than usual. On the whole, the 2013 average pollen count in Japan is estimated to be between 2~5 times higher than 2012, due to this summer\u2019s above average temperatures. The amount of pollen in the air in spring, especially from Japanese cedar and hinoki (Japanese cypress), depends on the previous summer\u2019s weather. Conditions such as high temperatures, long daylight hours and low rainfall contribute to an increase in the following spring\u2019s pollen count. Northern Kyushu\u2019s average summer temperatures for summer 2012 were higher than previous years, however daylight hours were shorter and there was more rainfall than usual. Southern Kyushu experienced average temperatures, very short daylight hours and a considerably larger amount of rainfall than usual. So, good news for hay fever sufferers\u2013 there should be 70% less pollen produced in Kyushu in spring! The Japan Weather Association\u2019s more detailed report will be sold as \u201cHay Scatter Forecast Data of April 2013\u201d, but you can check the graphic for more details: blue~purple denotes low pollen count, orange~green is average to high pollen count, and red denotes high pollen count. Source: Japan Weather Association HP http:\/\/www.jwa.or.jp\/content\/view\/full\/4691\/ <\/a><\/p>\n

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The Japan Weather Association has announced its 2013 hay fever forecast, with good news for Kyushu! Next spring, the pollen count for Kyushu and Shikoku areas is going to be around 70% lower than usual! Elsewhere in the country\u2013 from Chugoku to Hokkaido it will be higher than usual, and Tokyo, Kanto and Tohoku can expect 1.5 times more pollen in the air than usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":28971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-82349","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-environment","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/82349","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\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}