TOKYO, Sep 02 (Information On Japan) –
Japan has skilled its hottest summer season on report for the second consecutive 12 months, with temperatures matching these of 2023.
The intense warmth has affected numerous areas, with Northern, Jap, and Western Japan all recording considerably higher-than-average temperatures. Tokyo and Osaka noticed quite a few extraordinarily scorching days, with some areas reaching over 40°C.
The warmth has led to modifications in occasions and faculty actions, together with suspending summer season festivals and canceling swimming periods at colleges. Wanting forward, the record-breaking warmth is anticipated to proceed into September, with potential for slow-moving typhoons and sudden thunderstorms.The Pacific excessive stress, which dominates summer season, is anticipated to strengthen greater than regular, spreading throughout the Japanese archipelago.
As moist air flows across the fringe of this excessive stress, sudden thunderstorms, or “guerrilla downpours,” are anticipated in September. Sudden climate modifications ought to be fastidiously monitored.
This 12 months, Tokyo has already seen an elevated variety of thunderstorm days, and this development could proceed for an additional month because the Pacific excessive stress has been liable to strengthening as a consequence of situations within the south.
Close to the equator, there’s a tendency for clouds to type, resulting in rising air currents. Nevertheless, to stability this, the air should descend someplace, and the excessive stress strengthens north of the cloud-covered areas, resulting in hotter situations.
Hurricane No. 10 has already induced widespread influence, and Hurricane No. 11 is forming. Whereas its influence on Japan is anticipated to be restricted, the situations stay favorable for storm formation.
Hirose added that the cloud mass east of Hurricane No. 11 might develop right into a tropical melancholy (a precursor to a storm). He suggested staying alert to storm updates all through the week.
Hurricane No. 10 was a slow-moving storm, prolonging its influence. This development might proceed into September.
Supply: TBS
