Rain, Rain, Go Away. Come Again on Monday Morning!

This year the rainy season seems to be a little early.
Usually the rainy season lasts more-or-less for the month of June, but this year we've had a few extended patches of rain already. Actually, I'm almost confident to say that we've had just as many rainy days as sunny ones in this latter half of May. I wonder if that means that the rainy season is just going to be longer this year, or if perhaps it will end sooner, since it started sooner. Who knows.
Sure enough, it's raining right now. The frogs must be loving all this wet weather. However, today's rain (and yesterday's too, for that matter) can be explained by the following picture:
Yes, the second typhoon of this season is getting closer and causing all this rain. It was a pretty nasty typhoon when it was down by the Philippines, but it has lost quite a bit of strength as it climbed slowly northwards to Japan. I just saw on the news this morning that it caused some pretty strong winds and heavy rains in Okinawa as it passed by last night, and now the southern island of Kyushu is getting a bit of a pounding, but nothing too serious. The picture above shows it's predicted trajectory. Looks like it's going to pass by south of us, (if you aren't sure where we live, find the "0" of "30" and take your line of sight straight upwards to the Sea of Japan coast (the northern coast) and you'll see a small peninsula just to your right. We live at the base of that peninsula) but we'll probably still fall within the big yellow circle of strong winds and heavy rain. Fingers crossed, anyway! If we get what's known as a keiho (severe weather alert) then school is cancelled for the day (or at least until lunchtime, possibly for the whole day). We had a heavy rain keiho just a couple of weeks ago, and it was GREAT!! Of course, we still have to go in to work, only the students get the day off, but it means we get to chill out and catch up on things without having to "do our jobs" and go to teach classes etc. haha.
Anyway, I just checked the weather report and the southern half of Kyoto prefecture has a heavy rain keiho issued, so it's probably just a matter of time until they extend it up to here. We need to get 50mm of rain in one hour to get a keiho . The question is, will the keiho still be in place when it counts (Monday morning!) or will it be lifted by then and thus school as normal.
Keiho, or no keiho, that is the question.

Anyway, keep your fingers crossed for us. We'd love to have a relaxing Monday :)