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梅雨, and the fifth season
Japan insists on four seasons and then adds a fifth: 梅雨, the plum rain, several weeks of humid drizzle through June discussed as a period of its own with its own foods and its own complaints. Typhoon season follows in late summer, occasionally severe enough to stop trains and close offices. Forecasts are followed closely because they carry consequences, and でしょう — probably — is the standard way a forecast ends, so this lesson's grammar turns up on television every evening.