Japanese authorities on Monday warned of a possible power shortage as the country reached record temperatures, and Tokyo has just experienced the shortest rainy season in its history. «We ask the public to reduce energy consumption in the early evening“When electricity reserves are at an all-time low in Tokyo, Deputy Secretary-General of the Government of Japan Yoshihiko Isozaki said on Monday.
However, the government urged residents to take the necessary precautions to protect themselves from the heat. A temperature of 35 ° C was announced in the Japanese capital on Monday, where the mercury should not fall below 34 ° C until next Sunday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
And while the rainy season is expected to be in full swing in much of Japan, the JMA said it ended on Monday in the Kanto area of Tokyo. This is the earliest end of the rainy season, 22 days earlier than usual, as Japan began comparing data in 1951.
The rainy season ended on Monday in central Japan, on a part of Kyushu Island (southwest), which also set a record. The temperature on Sunday reached 40.2 ° C in the city of Iesaki, located one hundred kilometers north of Tokyo, which is the highest temperature ever recorded in Japan in June. «Immediately after the rainy season, many people are still not accustomed to the heat and are at greater risk of being hit.“JMA warned.
«Every year July-August is hot, but I have never experienced such heat in June“, Says Asako Naruse, 58, who was escorted by AFP to Tokyo’s Ginza district, where many passers-by carried umbrellas.
Source: Le Figaro
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