Japan recorded the warmest September in the past 125 years, the Japanese meteorological agency JMA announced on Monday: at a time when the whole world is preparing to break heat records.
The average temperature on the archipelago in September was 2.66 degrees Celsius higher than normal, the JMA said in a statement.
This is the highest value since comparative statistics were introduced in 1898, said the agency, which had previously announced the highest average temperatures between June and August.
The temperature increase is in line with the rest of the world, which almost broke the annual temperature record this year.
After recording the hottest quarter in history during the boreal summer (June-July-August), the world is feeling the effects of climate change, amplified in recent months by the return, over the Pacific Ocean, of the cyclical phenomenon El Niño , synonymous with greater warming.
September was also the warmest month on record in Germany, Poland, Switzerland and even France, where the country’s meteorological agency announced on Friday an average temperature last month “between 3.5 and 3.6 degrees Celsius” above the 1991-1991 reference period. 2020 lag.
Britain also had its warmest September on record, equaling the record set in 2006, local meteorological services announced on Monday.
Source: DN
