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Citing the ongoing El Niño, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a winter forecast on September 19, 2023, estimating an 80% likelihood for below normal snowfall for the country's western coastline, as well as a 90% chance for above normal temperatures from December to February.
The 2023 Pacific typhoon season was the fourth consecutive below-average season and became the third-most inactive typhoon season on record in terms of named storms, with just 17 named storms developing, only ahead of 2010 and 1998. Despite the season occurring during an El Niño event, which typically favors activity in the basin, activity was ...
The highest recorded temperature in Japan was 41.1 °C (106.0 °F) on 23 July 2018, an unverified record of 42.7 °C was taken in Adachi, Tokyo on 20 July 2004. The high humidity and the maritime influence make temperatures in the 40s rare, with summers dominated by a more stable subtropical monsoon pattern through most of Japan.
Weathernews LiVE (ウェザーニュースLiVE, Uezānyusu LiVE) (WNL) is a Japanese 24-hour live channel owned and operated by Weathernews Inc. (WNI), the largest privately owned weather company in the world. WNL started broadcasting 16 April 2018, [ 1 ][ 2 ] replacing the original BS Weathernews/WX 24 and SOLiVE 24, a similar streaming ...
The Japan Meteorological Agency (気象庁, Kishō-chō), a division of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, is dedicated to the scientific observation and research of natural phenomena. Headquartered in Minato, Tokyo the agency collects data on meteorology, hydrology, seismology, and volcanology, and other related fields.
Typhoon Lan (2023) Typhoon Lan was a powerful tropical cyclone that struck central Japan in mid-August 2023. The seventh named storm and fifth typhoon of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season, Lan originated from an area of low pressure several hundred kilometers east of Iwo Jima. It initially tracked north-northwestward, gradually intensifying into ...
Part of the 2023 Pacific typhoon season. Typhoon Khanun (Thai: ขนุน), known in the Philippines as Typhoon Falcon, was a powerful, erratic and long-lived tropical cyclone that moved along Okinawa, Japan and the west coast of the Korean Peninsula in August 2023. It was the sixth named storm and fourth typhoon of the 2023 Pacific typhoon ...
Climate change is an urgent and significant issue affecting Japan. [1] In recent years, the country has observed notable changes in its climate patterns, with rising temperatures serving as a prominent indicator of this phenomenon. [1] As an archipelago situated in northeastern Asia, Japan is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate ...