It was very foggy this morning. I could not see even 5 to 10 meters away. But I could see the beautiful sun in the fog. Fog is kiri (霧) in Japanese, thick fog is nomu (濃霧).
At night when I watched TV news, I knew because of this thick fog more than 180 flights were canceled at the Haneda International Airport and that more than 31,000 people were affected. More than 400 flights were delayed more than 30 minutes and some flights were delayed more than 10 hours. Some ferries were also canceled.
It also blew haruichiban (春一番), literally spring No. 1. That is the first strong southern wind blown between Risshun (立春) on Feb. 4 and Shunbun (春分) on March 21. It was 12 days later than last year. The maximum instantaneous wind speed was 14.4 meters in Tokyo. The temperature went up to 18.3 degrees centigrade like April.
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