November 27th – December 1st is Winter – SHOSETSU (Lesser snow)-59th KOU “North wind blows the leaves of the trees”
Strong winds blew all day yesterday (26th), blowing leaves into the air as in the 59th KOU.
By the way, the Japan Meteorological Agency announced on November 7th that the “first KOGARASHI” had blown in the TOKYO area.
The first KOGARASHI is a north wind of 8 meters or more that blows for the first time from of the year, late autumn in mid-October to early winter in late November.
I couldn’t find the announcement in SHINSHU area, so I checked past weather data.
Hmm… there’s a lot of data that seems to fit the conditions in TOKYO even in the end of October. I wonder if the first KOGARASHI in SHINSHU area blew earlier than in the Tokyo area. The western winds blowing from the Japan Alps also bring cold to SHINSHU.
The HANAMIZUKI (flowering dogwood) in the garden has perfectly lost all its leaves, and MOZU (shrike) and ONAGA (Japanese blue magpie) are gathering to pick the red berries that have fallen to the ground.
