Japan set to record-high average temperature in 2024, 2nd year in row

Yes, and next year will be hotter and next next year even hotter and so on.

Variations in weather are a constant and ongoing thing.

In my area of Tokyo, I keep track of public greenery where the environment is more shaded and cooler than elsewhere. Over the last decade, there has been a gradual and consistent reduction in the cool areas due to deliberate human actions, like redevelopment. Japan's authorities need to acknowledge their responsibility for creating the heat island.

Yes, you're right. But... the temperature variation is basically only in one direction over the last 100+ years. Up!

Variations in weather are a constant and ongoing thing.

I want to leave Japan from June to September for 4 months. I am quite happy here from October to May. My retirement plan is live in Japan for 8 months and somewhere cooler for 4 months a year while I am still able.

It was so mild yesterday that I ate lunch out in a friend’s garden-the papaya tree was doing ok too…

in our place we have had just average weather nothing or too hot or too cold.

this morning little snow and little below zero...

Japan set to record-high average temperature in 2024, 2nd year in row

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Finished your headlines for the next two years.

If temperatures continue to rise and the consequences are bad, it is nothing that we don't deserve as a species. Our hubris, mixed with our delight in being ignorant and our disdain for anything intellectual, will be our downfall, and we will have earned it.

I look forward to the World Athletics Federation Games in Tokyo this coming August

If temperatures continue to rise and the consequences are bad, it is nothing that we don't deserve as a species.

Think food security. Look forward to growing grapes all year round.

toraToday 11:28 am JST

If temperatures continue to rise and the consequences are bad, it is nothing that we don't deserve as a species.

Think food security. Look forward to growing grapes all year round.

People can't live on grapes, nor are we going to be shipping free bottle water all over the world.

Water will be the cause of future wars. I won't be here but my children and grandchildren will be.

It's cooling back down again to the long-term average, definitely cooler than last year's mild winter. But it's best to be scared and alarmed just in case.

Well, it was very hot this summer wasn’t it? Mind you there were still lovely days October through to 'November when it was nice enough for us to go for family picnics. There’s always an upside to everything like this I guess.

Wallace. I am a geology buff not anthropology. but previous societies with amazing water supply systems were overcome ,'cos water supplies became insufficient for the population growth. I acknowledge your concern about your offspring, good of you. It depends on our they react to the changes the last 3? generations have wreaked upon the planet?

If warmer, less energy consumption in winter.

The first and main teason for warmer temperatures is heat island effect, which in Japan is terrible.

Just go and walk into a forest and you will see the difference.

Guess what does bringing of huge quantities of energy which ultimately transforms into heat in cities because of A/C systems do ?

I have no doubt the warmer climate will be a net positive for mankind in the long run, meaning more energy at disposal.

It does not mean we should no fight chemical pollution leading to aberration. And Japan has not been very good at it (ex : Minamata, plastic emissions/recycling...).

Jonathan PrinToday 04:13 pm JST

I have no doubt the warmer climate will be a net positive for mankind in the long run, meaning more energy at disposal.

And the large number of places made uninhabitable is just tough luck?

I have no doubt the warmer climate will be a net positive for mankind in the long run, meaning more energy at disposal.

Your opinion vs the scientific world.

Why are Arctic temperatures and sea temperatures increasing in the mid-ocean then? It must be Santa Claus and the Atlantans fault.

The first and main teason for warmer temperatures is heat island effect, which in Japan is terrible.

Just go and walk into a forest and you will see the difference.

Err, why is sea ice in the Arctic at a record high?

Not quite the time to save the planet…

https://usicecenter.gov/PressRelease/ArcticMaximum2024