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Word of the Day: Downpour
The weather in Japan has been bizarre recently.
It seems that every day, there has been a downpour in a different part of the country.
Downpours are relatively short periods of extremely heavy rain.
In many incidents, these heavy rain events caused traffic to drive through flooded streets, property damage and, most regretful, loss of life.
These sudden rain events may be a sign of things to come, or it may be only this year.
Be careful out there.
Always carry a little collapsible umbrella just in case you suddenly get caught in a downpour.
If you’re Japanese, you either have an umbrella at work or at home and perhaps even in your car.
North Americans don’t generally carry umbrellas.
I don’t know why, but we don’t.
That’s why it’s more common for North Americans to be caught in a downpour without an umbrella than for a Japanese person.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 70.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.