What's the climate like in Japan? What are the characteristics of Meiyu climate?

Japan's climate spans 25 degrees across Japan, and the temperature difference between north and south is very significant. The plateaus of Hokkaido and Honshu belong to the sub-frigid zone, the native land belongs to the temperate zone, and the southern islands such as Okinawa belong to the subtropical zone. In addition, Japan's geographical position makes it influenced by the intersection of monsoon and ocean current, so it has four distinct seasons and abundant precipitation. Japan can be divided into six climatic zones, namely: Hokkaido climate Hokkaido is not affected by plum rains, and the rainfall is less than that in other parts of Japan. Summer is short and cool; Winter is long and cold. Japan's coastal climate ranges from the west coast of Honshu Island. Winter is controlled by Siberian high, and the northwest wind blows. At the same time, because the warm current in winter brings a lot of water vapor to the horse current passing through the Sea of Japan, it often snows heavily. There is less precipitation in summer, and sometimes there is abnormal high temperature due to foehn. The central plateau climate is a typical inland climate. It is cold in winter and cool in summer. There is a great temperature difference between winter and summer and day and night. The climate on the Pacific side with little rain includes the east coast of Honshu, Shikoku and most parts of Kyushu. Influenced by the southeast monsoon in summer, there are many strong typhoons in Meiyu period. In winter, there is less snowfall. The climate of Seto Inland Sea includes parts of Yang Shan, Shikoku, Feng Jingen and Kyushu. The weather here is often sunny, with little rainfall and suffering from drought from time to time. The climate range of Nanxi Islands is Ryukyu Islands. It belongs to subtropical climate, with hot summer and warm winter. Rainstorm. Typhoons often strike in summer. The precipitation in Japan is the highest in the world. The main reasons include winter snowfall in Japan's coastal areas; Continuous plum rains in June-July (May-June in Okinawa and Amami); And typhoons that landed in or near Japan from summer to autumn. The highest recorded temperature in Japan is 40.9 degrees, which was measured on August 16, 2007 in Kumagaya City, saitama and Tojima City, Gifu Prefecture. The lowest recorded temperature is -4 1 degree, which was 10+degree measured in Asahikawa, Hokkaido on October 25th. 2。 Meiyu (Huangmeitian) refers to the cloudy and rainy natural climate phenomenon in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Taiwan Province Province, south-central Japan and south Korea every year from late June to early July. Because plum rains occurred in the mature period of plums in the south of the Yangtze River, people in China call this climate phenomenon "plum rains", and this period is also called "plum rains season". In the rainy season, the air humidity is high and the temperature is high, so clothes are easy to get moldy, so some people call the rainy season "moldy rain". After the rainy season, the weather in Central China, South China, Taiwan Province Province and other places began to be dominated by the Pacific subtropical high, and officially entered the summer heat.