Freaky weather

Hm, the weather seem to go all weird whenever we go on trips, but never directly affecting where we are at the time. Two months ago on our trip to Kobe, a typhoon hit the southern island of Kyushu which caused a tornado that killed 3 people. My mum was really worried about us but although it was really windy and somewhat rainy for us in Kobe it was not too bad. On Tuesday when we were still in Kyoto, a freak tornado wiped out a town and killed 9 people in the northern island of Hokkaido - it was really windy and very cold in Kyoto and we were scheduled to return home that day but the trains back to our prefecture were cancelled and we were forced to stay back in Kyoto another day.

According to this article, tornadoes are quite rare in Japan, and Tuesday's weather 'accident' (as Kami-sensei described it) was the worst on record. The second worst tornado to hit Japan on record was the one that hit Kyushu in September. The freaky thing is that both happened while we were on holiday!