For First Time Ever In June, Temperatures In Japan Hit 104F; 25 Chinese Sites Hit All-Time Records
In a blistering hot June around the Northern Hemisphere, in which heat records have fallen on every continent, Japan is the latest to swelter. On Saturday, temperatures there shot above 104 degrees (40 Celsius) for the first time on record during the month, another clear sign of the sweeping effects of human-caused climate change.
The mercury soared to 104.4 degrees (40.2 Celsius) in Isesaki, a city of more than 200,000 people about 50 miles northwest of Tokyo. That marked Japan’s hottest temperature ever observed during June.
The scorching temperatures — both in Japan and elsewhere — are occurring as summer has barely begun with the typically hotter months of July and August still to come. Isesaki was among “dozens” of locations in Japan to set monthly high temperature records Saturday, according to Thierry Goose, who monitors temperatures worldwide. He tweeted that several locations also set records for their highest temperatures seen in any month.
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The excessive heat also swelled over eastern China Saturday, where 25 locations observed their hottest day on record for any month of the year, according to Maximiliano Herrera, who also tracks global temperatures.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/06/25/japan-heat-wave-climate-record/
