areas like the philippines and through the indochina peninsula looking at sharp downpours as well as thunderstorms again. up towards the north, northeast china will remain wet. we have a low moving very slowly, and some of that moisture heading across into northern japan mostly in the area. parts of the region are looking at continuing showers or chance of light showers throughout today. for friday we show 43 degrees in manila and 45 in bangkok. 27 for taipei as well as shanghai. tokyo is going to be looking much warmer, too. 28 degrees for your high today, so that's a big jump from yesterday. now, to the outlook for those quake-affected areas, we'll show the chance of precipitation on friday for these couple of cities, but that's going to be in the morning hours. it should let up by now. hachinohe is the exception. there's a slight chance of showers. on saturday things dry out nicely although there's heavy cloud cover. gusty conditions continue into saturday as well. dry skies for both days here, and in mito nice and warm here, 25 degrees for both friday and saturday. some very warm