As it happens, I'll be hopping in a jet for sunnier climes in a day or two,
still waiting on the details. However checking the weather sites, it looks
like the improvement may be only a bit better than marginal, at least to
start - I have a work trip to Japan which has been hovering over me for
about a month, but has only come in to focus in the last couple of days,
giving me about 48 hours warning, depending when/what the actual dates are
when they are finally revealed. As the temperatures here struggle with lows
of 10 to 13 and highs of 17 to 19, for those moments between the showers,
my destination in Japan, north of Tokyo, shows lows of 17 to 19 and highs
of 20 to 24, with varying probabilities of thunder showers. It will still
seem like a tropical paradise by comparison...