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TOKYO: Japan experienced its hottest summer on record this year, with temperatures comparable to 2023, data released by the Japan Meteorological Agency on Monday (September 2) showed.
Climate scientists have predicted that 2024 will be the hottest year on record for the Earth due to global warming.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said that Japan’s long-term average temperature from June to August was 1.76 degrees Celsius higher than the standard value, the highest since statistics were collected in 1898.
July this year was the hottest July on record in Japan, with the temperature difference across the country 2.16 degrees Celsius above the average.
In central Tokyo alone, 123 people died of heat stroke in July, according to local authorities, and the extreme heat wave led to a record number of ambulance calls in Tokyo.
Southern Japan Hit by a strong typhoon Last week, the archipelago of 125 million people suffered one of its worst floods in decades.
Typhoon Shanshan killed at least six people, including three family members who died in landslides, and brought record rainfall to many areas.
Typhoons in the region are forming closer to the coastline, intensifying faster and lasting longer over land due to climate change, according to a study released in July.
A rapid attribution analysis using peer-reviewed methods conducted by Imperial College London calculated that global warming has made Typhoon Shanshan 26% more likely to form.
Japan Meteorological Agency officials noted that the unusual movement of westerly winds over Japan this year “has made the archipelago more vulnerable to warm air from the south.”
“The long-term effects of global warming are also at work, pushing up average temperatures,” meteorological agency official Kaoru Takahashi told AFP.
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