Temperature records are being calculated around Asia, from India’s summer to Australia’s winter, the authorities conveyed on Friday, with new proof of the affect of climate transformation. The warm temperatures match longstanding warnings from climate scientists and come as nations from Greece to Canada battle record heat and deadly wildfires.
In India, which is the world’s most populated nation, officials conveyed August 2023 was the warmest and most scorching since national records started more than a century ago. The month happens in the middle of India’s yearly monsoon season, which typically brings up to 80 per cent of the nation’s annual downpour. But despite extreme rainfalls that led to disastrous floods in the nation’s north earlier in August, overall downpour has been far below average.
August has experienced an approximate of just 161.7mm of downpour, 30.1mm less than the last August record in 2005, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. That has left the nation baking in scorching heat. The extreme downfall deficiency and fragile monsoon situation is the sole reason,” the IMD said. The weather agency in Japan said on Friday that the nation went through its warmest summer since records started in 1898.
Temperatures from June to August were “typically higher” than average across the north, east and west of the nation, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. In many places, “not just maximum temperatures but also minimum temperatures” got record highs, it added.