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Tokyo's 37-day rainfall record streak ends

Rank
Running
46h
Updated
12h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
8
Regions
2
Countries
6
Languages
5

+0

The Mainichi Japan · English 4 Oct, 03:33 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Nederlands (2) · Čeština (1) · Polski (1) · Српски (1) · +3 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 8 after 47 hours.

2 4 6 8
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: The Mainichi, 4 Oct, 03:33 UTC.
  2. Second country: Serbia, with Blic.
  3. Second region: Europe, with Blic.
  4. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 5 Oct, 08:08 UTC.
  5. Now: 8 outlets.

Where it travelled

47 of 47 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

38%62%

  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 2 countries · 38%
  • Europe 5 outlets · 4 countries · 62%

First movers

  1. The Mainichi 4 Oct, 03:33 UTC
  2. Blic +8h 6m
  3. TVN24 +13h
  4. Republica +28h 35m
  5. The Japan Times +29h 9m

Latest arrivals

  1. Het Laatste Nieuws 5 Oct, 13:32 UTC
  2. VRT NWS 5 Oct, 13:12 UTC
  3. iDNES 5 Oct, 08:59 UTC
  4. The Japan Times 5 Oct, 08:43 UTC
  5. Republica 5 Oct, 08:08 UTC

The figures

Coverage
8 outlets in 6 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 8 outlets, 1 public-service, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 2: Japan, Nepal. Europe 4: Belgium, Czechia, Poland, Serbia. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Czech, English, Dutch, Polish, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article The Mainichi, 4 Oct 2026, 03:33 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 03:40 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 13:32 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Asia-Pacific, Japan. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.35, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
5 Oct 2026 328 3.05 8 6 5 4 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 4 Oct, 03:40 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 13:32 UTC

Covered by 8 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • The Japan Times Japan 5 Oct, 08:43 UTC
    Tokyo’s record streak of rain comes to an end
  • Republica Nepal 5 Oct, 08:08 UTC
    Tokyo 37-day record streak of rain comes to an end
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Tokyo 37-day record streak of rain comes to an end 5 Oct, 08:08 UTC
  • The Mainichi Japan 4 Oct, 03:33 UTC
    Tokyo's record rainfall streak ends after 37 days

Europe 5 outlets

  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 5 Oct, 13:32 UTC
    Na recordreeks van 37 regendagen houden ze het eindelijk droog in Tokio
  • VRT NWS Belgium 5 Oct, 13:12 UTC
    Na regen komt (eindelijk) zonneschijn: Tokio klokt af op recordreeks van 37 opeenvolgende neerslagdagen
  • iDNES Czechia 5 Oct, 08:59 UTC
    Pršelo sedmatřicet dní v řadě. Tokio zažilo nejdelší sérii deště od začátku měření
  • TVN24 Poland 4 Oct, 16:33 UTC
    Rekordowa seria deszczowych dni dobiegła końca
  • Blic Serbia 4 Oct, 11:39 UTC
    Ovde je kiša pljuštala 37 DANA ZA REDOM! Rekord je srušen
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