The short monsoon season brings heavy flooding in the river valleys.
March 1936 brought severe flooding when temperatures rose above freezing.
The storm killed seven people and brought extensive flooding to Honshū.
Every ten years or so, spring and summer bring flooding, but rarely are the major highways closed.
The remnants of the storm later moved into the region, bringing additional flooding.
The summers are rainier than the other seasons, and the summer rains usually bring flooding.
The storm brought heavy flooding, but no damage or deaths were reported.
In theory that is good news, because rising seas bring erosion and flooding to coastal areas.
It brought heavy rain and flooding to the area, which killed 45 people.
Up until the 1960s, the annual monsoon brought flooding and fish into the area.