The rainy season is June and July every year.

MeiYu, also known as "moldy rain", refers to the rainy weather phenomenon that occurs in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China, Taiwan, south-central Japan, and southern South Korea during the months of June and July each year, and is named after the ripening period of the plums in the south of the Yangtze River, when the season is known as the plum rainy season.

The plum rain season is known as the "plum rain" season.

The rainy season is characterized by high humidity, high temperatures, and moldy clothing, so some people refer to the rainy season as "moldy rain," which is a homonym for the rainy season. After the rainy season, the weather begins to be dominated by the Pacific subtropical high pressure, officially entering the hot summer months.

Based on the timing and duration of the rainy season, it can be categorized as normal rainy season, early rainy season, late rainy season, extra-long rainy season, short rainy season, and empty rainy season, etc. As climate change varies from year to year, the rainy season may appear differently.

Categorization of Plum Rain:

Plum rain is categorized into several types: Normal Plum Rain, Early Plum Rain, Late Plum Rain, Extra-long Plum Rain, Short Plum, Empty Plum and Inverted Yellow Plum.

1, normal plum rain.

Normal prune rain starts around mid-June and ends in mid-July, lasting for more than 20 days, with rainfall between 200-400 millimeters, cloudy and rainy, high temperature and high humidity, and this kind of normal prune rain, which accounts for about half of the total number of prune rain.

2. Early Meiyu.

May rain every year, but some years at the end of May and early June will suddenly come, the meteorological "mango" festival before the start of the rain, collectively referred to as "early rain". Early plum rain after the start of the temperature is still relatively low, and there is no obvious wet phenomenon. The Early Plum Rain is basically a once-in-a-decade event.

3, late plum rain.

The rain that begins after late June is called late meiyu, late meiyu often more thunderstorms showers weather, duration is not long, the average is only about 15 days, but late meiyu ron rain is more concentrated.

4. Extra-long prune rain.

Sometimes the plum rain comes very early and lasts for an exceptionally long time, and the entire period of the plum rain even lasts for more than two months, bringing a large amount of precipitation, and the Extra-long Plum Rain is prone to lead to flooding and flooding.

5, short plum and empty plum.

Contrary to the long prune rain, some years the prune rain is very inconspicuous, ten days past and precipitation is not big, this situation is called "short prune". There are even some years when there is no continuous rainy weather, which is called "empty plum".

6, inverted yellow plum.

Sometimes the rainy season seems to have passed, but a few days later and then re-emerge hot and humid thunderstorms, and will maintain - a period of time, known as the "inverted yellow plum", inverted yellow plum usually lasts about 7-10 days.