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Paris (AFP) - It is "increasingly likely" 2024 will be the hottest year on record, despite July ending a 13-month streak of monthly temperature records, the EU's climate monitor said Thursday. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said last month was the second warmest on record books going back to 1940, only slightly cooler than July 2023. Between June 2023 and June 2024, each month eclipsed its own temperature record for the time of year. "The streak of record-breaking months has come to an end, but only by a whisker," said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of C3S. Last month the glob...
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By Tomohiro OSAKI Tokyo (AFP) - Halloween n'a lieu que dans quelques mois mais les maisons hantées connaissent un pic d'affluence au Japon, où avoir froid dans le dos fait figure de tradition estivale. Au Japon, l'été est généralement associé aux défunts. On y considère que les âmes des ancêtres reviennent dans l'autel de leur foyer à l'occasion de la fête de l'Obon, qui a lieu à la mi-août. Les maisons hantées y sont aussi considérées de saison du fait de leur climatisation et des frissons qu'elles provoquent, dans ce pays où s'abattent en été une chaleur et une humidité étouffantes. Dans le ...
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Tokyo (AFP) - Le Japon a connu cette année son mois de juillet le plus chaud depuis la mise en place de statistiques comparables il y a 126 ans, a annoncé l'agence météorologique nippone. Les températures dans le pays ont été supérieures de 2,16 degrés Celsius à la moyenne, battant le record de juillet 2023, qui était de 1,91°C au-dessus de la moyenne. "Il s'agit du chiffre le plus élevé depuis le début des statistiques en 1898", a déclaré jeudi l'Agence météorologique japonaise (JMA), précisant que les relevés étaient "considérablement plus élevés" dans l'ensemble du pays. Sur 153 postes d'ob...
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New York (AFP) - As much of America baked in heat waves this week, the relatively poor New York borough of the Bronx suffered disproportionately. Reinaldo Morales, a 68-year-old military veteran, went to a seniors' community center with air conditioning because turning it on at home is too costly. "We live in a cement jungle," he said. "It's nice that they have a cooling center like this. But the idea that we can't even afford to cool our home is outrageous," said Morales. Temperatures soared as high as 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) this week in New York, far from the 118F (48C) t...
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Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - A record-breaking heat wave continued to grip the western United States on Tuesday, smashing records and endangering lives with little relief in sight. Approximately 162 million people -- nearly one-half of the US population -- were living in areas under active heat warnings, according to the National Weather Service. It said in a post on X the "dangerous heat" was expected to remain in the western part of the country for the rest of the week before moving eastward over the weekend, warning "the persistent and record-breaking heat is extremely dangerous to ...
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Paris (AFP) - Last month was the hottest June on record across the globe, the EU's climate monitor said Monday, capping half a year of wild and destructive weather from floods to heatwaves. Every month since June 2023 has eclipsed its own temperature record in a 13-month streak of unprecedented global heat, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said. "This is more than a statistical oddity and it highlights a large and continuing shift in our climate," said the service director, Carlo Buontempo. "Even if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new recor...
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Washington (AFP) - The administration of US President Joe Biden on Tuesday proposed new regulations aimed at protecting laborers working in extremely high temperatures, as heat waves intensified by climate change increasingly blanket the nation. The rule would be aimed at mail carriers, delivery people, construction workers, landscapers, restaurant staff and others exposed to consistently high heat indexes, which measures how the temperature actually feels to humans. The measure -- which would affect about 35 million workers, according to the government -- would apply to those working both ins...
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Washington (AFP) - Deadly heat that blanketed the United States, Mexico and Central America recently was made 35 times more likely due to global warming, an international network of climate scientists said on Thursday. The World Weather Attribution (WWA) group of scientists also said that extreme highs witnessed over that region in May and June were four times as likely to occur today as a quarter of a century ago. The record-breaking heat killed at least 125 people in Mexico and caused thousands more to suffer heat strokes, a potentially fatal condition that occurs when the body's internal ...
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Washington (AFP) - Extreme heat and high humidity smothered the central and northeastern United States on Tuesday, with temperature records expected to melt away in the coming days, authorities warned, as wildfires sizzled in the west. "A heat wave will settle and persist across the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and the Northeast through the next few days," the National Weather Service said, explaining that the early arrival of summer heat wave made it more dangerous. Forecasters predicted that the mercury could hit 100 degrees Fahrenheit (about 38 Celsius) in parts of New England by Thursday. "Wid...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - An extreme early-summer heatwave was expected to peak Thursday across much of the western United States, where millions were scrambling to cope with the sudden sharp rise in temperatures. Las Vegas was baking in 111 degrees Fahrenheit (44 degrees Celsius) heat, while in the Death Valley desert the mercury was expected to shoot past 120F, due to an oppressive high-pressure weather system smothering the region. "Widespread high and low temperature records are likely to be tied or broken between California, Nevada and Arizona today," said the National Weather Service, in a bul...
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