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The Hiroshima Local Meteorological Observatory was moved to Kami-hachobori, Naka-ku, Hiroshima on December 22, 1987. The building was placed under the Hiroshima City to preserve on November 1, 1990. The building was reborn as the first Museum of Meteorology in Japan on June 1, 1992.
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).
The installation was completed on August 15, 1964, [1] and is now recorded on the list of IEEE Milestones in electrical engineering.When first built, the Mount Fuji Radar System was the world's highest weather radar (elevation 3,776 metres [12,388 ft]), and could observe major weather phenomena, such as destructive typhoons, at a range of more than 800 kilometres (500 mi).
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The Tottori Prefectural Museum (鳥取県立博物館, Tottori Kenritsu Hakubutsukan) is the prefectural museum of Tottori, Japan, dedicated to the nature, history, folklore, and art of the region. It holds over three thousand items from the permanent collection.
Traces of snow fall every day during the winter and cover is heavy, usually peaking at 0.82 metres (32.28 in), though Kitami still receives less overall precipitation than any other town in Japan as it is shielded from the heaviest moisture from both the Sea of Japan and Pacific Ocean. University of Tokyo's snow monitoring system is located in ...
A magnitude 5.9 temblor on the northern top of the Noto Peninsula was followed minutes later by a 4.8 and then several smaller quakes within the next two hours, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
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 ...