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Japan Logs Hottest July for Third Year in a Row
JAPAN, AUG 1 – The Japan Meteorological Agency reported a 2.89°C rise above average in July, with record heat and low rainfall linked to human-caused climate change affecting agriculture and ecosystems.
- The Japan Meteorological Agency announced that July this year was the warmest on record for Japan, with the average temperature exceeding the 1991-2020 norm by 2.89 degrees Celsius.
- This record followed two consecutive years of the hottest summers, influenced by unusual weather conditions such as a pronounced shift of westerly winds toward the north, which contributed to elevated temperatures and reduced rainfall.
- July temperatures rose significantly in northern and central regions, such as 6.3 degrees higher in Oumu Town and a peak 41.2 degrees Celsius recorded in Hyogo Prefecture's Tamba City.
- Rainfall fell sharply, with 13 percent of average precipitation along the Tohoku coast and 8 percent in the Hokuriku region, while the rainy season ended three weeks early in western Japan.
- Yoshinori Oikawa from the agency’s climate center stated that unusually high temperatures and below-average rainfall are expected to continue through August, and the mean temperature for the summer months of June to August is projected to break previous records.
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Temperatures in the country were 2.89 degrees Celsius higher than normal.
Japan registered the hottest month since 1898, declared the country's weather agency, at a time when extreme heat waves are recorded around the world.
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