The MSM was keen to promote this year’s Olympic Games as potentially being the “hottest ever!”; but in reality, northern Japan is suffering all-time, never-before seen, record-breaking COLD — and it is going largely unreported.
In Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, the city of Wakkanai registered a daily high of just 51F (10.5C) this week — this was the city’s lowest August reading in 128 years of books, so since 1893 (the Centennial/Gleissberg Minimum).
The mercury plunged even lower overnight, as you’d expect — an astonishing 36.7F (2.61C) was logged early Thursday morning, Aug 11, according to local news station TV Asahi.
Shocked residents spoke of being able see their breath, in the height of summer.
Wakkanai is located on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido.
Extreme weather and wildly-fluctuating temperatures have been documented across Japan in recent weeks.
At the close of July, Wakkanai actually came close to busting a high temperature record, but fell just short.
Such swings between extremes are fully predicted during times of low solar activity –such as the historically low output we’re experiencing now– as the lower incoming energy weakens the jet streams, reverting them to a wavy (meridional) flow.
These swings are only forecast to intensify as the Grand Solar Minimum fully takes hold (due SC26–or the early-2030s).
Elsewhere, hundreds of thousands of Japanese residents have been instructed to evacuate their homes due to flood warnings and landslide risks from torrential rains on Kyushu island.
Authorities issued the highest level of evacuation orders in some central parts of the island on Thursday, reported Reuters.
People were warned to take immediate action to protect their lives.
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NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS PERSIST INTO AUGUST
Noctilucent clouds (NLCs), or night shining clouds, are spilling out of the Arctic Circle and descending farther south than ever before.
Generally speaking, August is not a good month for NLCs — the silvery clouds, made of frosted meteor smoke, begin to melt away as the mesosphere warms up in late summer.
This August, however, the clouds are still being spotted.
Nadja Maletzki photographed them on Thursday, Aug 12 over Zürich, Switzerland:
But forget about August, continues Dr. Phillips.
Will this be the year that NLCs are seen in September…?
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Tens of thousands urged to evacuate as heavy rain hits Japan
The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of the risk of a 'grave disaster'
The downpours are forecast to continue for several days over a large swathe of the country, from the northern Tohoku region to Kyushu in the south.
"There is a possibility that a grave disaster will occur" in the coming days, a Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) official told an emergency news conference shown live on public broadcaster NHK.
In Unzen city in southern Nagasaki prefecture, two houses were hit by a landslide with one woman in her 50s feared dead, a local official told AFP.
The heaviest rain was in Hiroshima prefecture, where non-compulsory evacuation orders were issued to at least 69,500 people and the top flood alert announced.
In the city of Hiroshima, "we have issued a special heavy rain warning. This is a level of heavy rain that we have never experienced before", the JMA said in a statement.
The agency official also called the rain in some areas "unprecedented".
The land ministry warned that water levels are extremely high in three rivers—two running through the Hiroshima region, and one in southern Kumamoto.
Scientists say climate change is intensifying the risk of heavy rain in Japan.
Scientists say climate change is intensifying the risk of heavy rain in Japan and elsewhere, because a warmer atmosphere holds more water.
Downpours last month caused a devastating landslide in the central resort town of Atami that killed at least 21 people.
And in 2018, more than 200 people died as floods inundated western Japan during the country's annual rainy season.
On Friday, the JMA said that in the 24 hours from 6am on Friday, 300 millimetres (12 inches) of rain is expected in the northern part of Kyushu, with 200 to 250 millimetres forecast in many other parts of the country.
Explore further 21 dead as torrential rainfall batters central China
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La Niña to emerge in Aug-Oct season, U.S. weather service says
Reutershttps://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/la-nina-to-emerge-in-aug-oct-season-u-s-weather-service-says
Friday, August 13th 2021, 2:20 pm - The Pacific ocean phenomenon, along with its counterpart El Niño, has an outsized influence on tropical storm formation.
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(Reuters) - The La Niña weather pattern could potentially develop during the August-October season, and last through the 2021-22 winter, the U.S. government's National Weather Service said on Thursday.
The La Niña pattern is characterized by unusually low temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean and is linked to floods and drought.
Typical impacts of La Niña on Canada during winter. (Credit: Climate.gov)
The ENSO weather pattern is marked by average long-term ocean temperatures, tropical rainfall and atmospheric winds.
Last month, the forecaster said there was a 51% chance of ENSO neutral conditions for the August-October season.
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