Tokyo is baking in 40 deg C heat, as floods inundate northern Japan. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO – Japan issued heatstroke alerts on Sunday as near-record high temperatures scorched swathes of the country, even as torrential rain pummelled other regions.
The government issued heatstroke alerts for 20 of the country’s 47 prefectures, mainly in the east and south-west, affecting tens of millions of people. Japan’s highest temperature ever recorded was 41.1 deg C, which was first recorded in Kumagaya city, in Saitama, in 2018 and then matched in Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka, in 2020.
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