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So far it’s noticeably cooler and wetter in the main island of Japan compared to the last few years

• goblin89 6y ago
  The relationship between climate and weather can be locally counterintuitive. When a lot of ice starts to melt, you get colder weather. At a smaller scale I got acquainted with this paradox as a child—where I grew up, every spring temperatures drop substantially for a period of time as rivers and lesser ice caps unfreeze. “Why is it getting colder?” “Because it is getting hotter!” At larger scales, if say parts of Arctic melt, that would cool a lot of air, and where this airmass ends up there will be cold weather.