Okinawa Weather on August 6th
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Today’s weather in Okinawa is still hot, but the humidity is lower than last month’s summer days, so although it’s still hot, it definitely feels less intense than in July. There was also a lot of wind throughout the day, so if you were by the seaside, even with the strong sunshine, it was quite refreshing with the sea breeze. The temperature reached a high of 32°C and a low of 27°C, but I didn’t feel overwhelmingly hot at all today.
Okinawa Weather Video for 6th August
Here is the weather video for Okinawa on August 6th. Typically, Kokusai Street should be free of tourists on a Wednesday, but I can hear a lot of Taiwanese being spoken.
The Area Around Kokusai Street
This is the view of Kokusai Street. As I mentioned earlier, there are certainly a lot of tourists for a Wednesday. I can also see some parasols, and today was a day where the intense sunlight rather than humidity made it hot, so using a parasol was helpful. When the humidity is high, you sweat just by walking, but today wasn’t quite at that level.
It’s near the western end of Kokusai Street, and there are many Taiwanese tourists. You can hear Taiwanese being spoken everywhere.
This is the water level of the Miebashi River. Storing this much water suggests that there won’t be heavy rain in the next few days. There is no forecast for heavy rain until this time next week, and there are no low-pressure cloud formations around Okinawa that could bring heavy rain. There are some tropical low-pressure clouds near the Philippines, but there’s no guarantee they’ll head towards Okinawa, and they’re still small in size. Even if they do come directly to Okinawa, it would take about five days, so until this weekend, it seems it will be more about the intense sun than humidity. It would be wise to prepare sunscreen and a parasol.
Okinawa West Coast
This is Naminoue Shrine. It’s a popular tourist spot that Taiwanese people really like, so I expected it to be crowded… but perhaps because I came in the evening, there weren’t many people. It was the least crowded I’ve seen it recently.
Finally… I’ve captured the scene of a traffic accident in photos.
I wanted to write about what to do in the event of a rental car accident in Okinawa, but I couldn’t because I didn’t have any photos of the accident scene. I’ve finally got the photos. I’ll upload content on how to handle it separately later.
There was a collision between two compact cars, with the trunk of the front car damaged and the rear car having a minor issue where the cover between the headlights and the indicator lights fell off. Fortunately, there were no injuries, and it seems one of them was distracted and caused the accident, but I’m not sure whose fault it was.
Anyway… to put it simply in advance… if you don’t report an accident to the police, you won’t be able to claim insurance. If you return the rental car in a damaged state without reporting it, the rental company will charge you all the costs without insurance coverage, so make sure to report it to the police. Simple English words like “here,” “traffic,” “crash,” and using Google Maps for the address in English should suffice.
This is Naminoue Beach. There were an unusually large number of Westerners swimming today. They were probably US military personnel.
I’m on my way to take some photos of the Okinawa weather and do some shopping. I saw someone surveying, so I took a shot. I used that equipment a lot when I was in the military. You need to know how to use it for mortar firing, and it’s also used when constructing military warehouses to ensure the walls are perfectly level and angled. This photo brought back some old memories.
This is the view beneath the Tomari Bridge. Today, there are no large cruise ships docked. They might arrive tomorrow. However, I won’t be in Naha much tomorrow, so I can’t inform you. I’ll be spending the entire day in the northern part of Okinawa, and I’ll be staying overnight there. My filming schedule is quite tight, so I plan to film, stay overnight, and then finish filming the next day before heading back to Naha.
This is the view of Tomari Port.
With the weather being so lovely these days, there are loads of people taking the ferry to Zamami Island. I’d love to go myself, but I have quite a few Okinawa snap bookings… I’m considering whether I should focus more on videos during this time, but I think it might just remain a thought. I’m already so busy, and videos too…
Miebashi Area
Even so, on a day like this, it’s perfect for enjoying a refreshing beer, so I went shopping. I also bought some instant rice, and interestingly, in Japan, brown rice is more expensive than white rice. Normally, brown rice should be cheaper, don’t you think?
On my way back from shopping, I took another picture of the water level of the Miebashi River. I have bookings for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this week, so I need to go out for shoots. Just thinking about the possibility of no rain lifts my spirits already.
And the laundry I hung out around lunchtime was already completely dry by just after 6 PM. When I lived in Prague, hanging laundry like this would make it wonderfully crisp and dry, but even in Japan, this is quite well-dried laundry. I suppose it was possible because the humidity was low today.
And I tried a beer called Super Dry Crystal for the first time, and it doesn’t taste good. It’s the worst tasting Super Dry I’ve ever had. Having lived in the Czech Republic for 11 years, my standards for beer taste are very high. Perhaps because I’ve been used to drinking the world’s best beers, this one objectively doesn’t taste good.
Anyway, that’s how the weather in Okinawa wraps up on August 6th. Tomorrow, I’ll be bringing you the weather news from Sesoko Island in northern Okinawa. There’s a guesthouse I visited in February that was really nice, so I’m visiting again. I wrote a review on Naver Blog.
I’ll leave it here for now, and I’ll see you again tomorrow with more Okinawa weather news. Matayasai 👋
