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According to the JMA, April 2024's average temperature throughout Japan was 2.76°C higher than the average annual April temperature, making it the hottest April since JMA records began in 1898. [2] In June 2024, Shizuoka Prefecture became the first Japanese prefecture to reach and surpass 40 °C (104 °F) in 2024. [1]
Forecast Center Period Systems Ref. January 15, 2024 PAGASA January–March 0–2 tropical cyclones [6] January 15, 2024 PAGASA April–June 2–4 tropical cyclones [6] June 26, 2024 PAGASA July–September 6–10 tropical cyclones [7] June 26, 2024 PAGASA October–December 4–7 tropical cyclones [7] 2024 season Forecast Center Tropical ...
Japan is generally a rainy country with high humidity. [1] Because of its wide range of latitude, [1] seasonal winds and different types of ocean currents, [citation needed] Japan has a variety of climates, with a latitude range of the inhabited islands from 24°N – 46°N, which is comparable to the range between Nova Scotia and The Bahamas in the east coast of North America. [1]
PWAC is a company that provides weather route information to ships sailing in the Pacific Ocean, and is the world's first private weather information company. [6] In April 1983 it started providing weather information to Asahi Broadcasting (currently Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings) becoming the first weather service provider other than the ...
Meteorological organizations in Japan have their origins in the 1870s, when the first weather stations started being established in the country. [1] One of these was the Tokyo Meteorological Observatory (東京気象台, Tōkyō Kishō-dai), which since 1956 has been known as the Japan Meteorological Agency (気象庁, Kishō-chō).
Since the establishment of the first weather station in Hakodate in 1872, Japan has recorded temperature changes across the country. According to the data provided by Japan Meteorological Agency, the maximum recorded temperature in Japan was 41.1°C in Hamamatsu on August 17, 2020, and Kumagaya on July, 23, 2018, while the minimum recorded temperature was −41.0 °C (−41.8 °F) in Asahikawa ...
Marine weather forecasting is the process by which mariners and meteorological organizations attempt to forecast future weather conditions over the Earth's oceans. Mariners have had rules of thumb regarding the navigation around tropical cyclones for many years, dividing a storm into halves and sailing through the normally weaker and more ...
April 2 – The governor of Shizuoka Prefecture, Heita Kawakatsu, announces his resignation following uproar over comments he made the previous day comparing civil servants with other professions. [43] April 3 – A magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes off the coast of Taiwan, prompting tsunami warnings for Okinawa Prefecture in Japan.