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Japan reached its highest temperature yesterday, when the thermometer reached 41.1 degrees Celsius in Kumagaya, in the center-west of Saitama Prefecture.
The Japan Meteorological Agency added that the previous record belonged to the locality of Shimanto, in the south-central prefecture of Koicho, which arrived at 41 degrees centigrade in August 2013.
The wave of The heat that inhabits the archipelago has continued to be felt, and has already claimed more than 40 lives, in addition to the tens of thousands of discomforts that forced them to seek medical attention, said an office of the 39, Kyodo agency.
This Monday in the prefectures around the capital Tokyo, there were three deaths, all elderly, during the day before, the fire department reported three thousand 125 services because of heat problems.
Of this number of services, 300 resulted in the transfer of affected people According to meteorological authorities, the heat wave is due to the high pressure system that affects the Asian country, which will maintain high temperatures after having been maintained.
IN ENGLAND
The heat wave in England yesterday reached a temperature of 33.3 degrees Celsius, the highest recorded so far this year and with chances that the British capital will reach 35 degrees Celsius this week.
The Met Office issued a yellow alert until next Friday, which means that additional precautions should be taken in the face of this prolonged heat wave.
"There is a 90% chance that the heat conditions will remain between Monday (…) until Friday in parts of England," he said.
Maximum temperature was recorded at Santon Downham, Suffolk, a city located in the east of England. The yellow alert is issued when daytime heat conditions reach 30 degrees centigrade for two consecutive days.
IN THE UNITED STATES High summer temperatures also reach the southwestern United States because of the arrival of an African front that has raised temperatures above 42 degrees Celsius, which has remarkable health effects.
The National Meteorological Service confirmed yesterday that the heat wave, which began in early July and affects states such as California, Arizona or Texas, will remain at least next Thursday with temperatures close to 46 degrees. Celsius during the day and 35 at night
The combination of sand particles from the Sahara and pollution, as well as intense temperatures, generate a desert climate with mists and a deterioration of the air quality that night to the climate. people with heart or lung diseases, elderly people and children.
Body emerging in the glaciers
Guide to the Matterhorn (Matterhorn, in German), s Swiss Alps, found on July 14 the body of a mountaineer, identified a few days later as a 67 year old Japanese citizen . Although this has not yet been the case when or under what circumstances the man has disappeared, the discovery is not new: the melting glaciers due to global warming discovered in the last decade in Switzerland of other bodies trapped for years on the ice. an area where some 280 people have disappeared without a trace since 1926.
A year ago, an employee of Glacier 3000, who manages the Matterhorn lifts, met up while walking on the Tsanfleuron glacier. frozen corpses in perfect state of conservation of the marriage formed by Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin, disappeared in 1942.
In 2016, the remains of a German lost since 1963 in the glacier of Morteratsch, in the canton of Graubünden, have been discovered. [19659002] In 2014, the remains of Jonathan Conville, who never returned from the climb, were found almost at the top of the Matterhorn. and began on the mountain in 1979. The same year, the corpse of a Czech explorer, lost since 1974, was found on a glacier in the canton of Bern.
A year later, on the Matterhorn, a group of mountaineers with the bodies of Japanese Michio Oikawa and Masayuki Kobayashi, disappeared on August 18, 1970.
(With information from El País) .
Suicide related increases with climate change
The increase in global temperature for the year 2050 may result in an increase of 21,000 additional suicides in the United States and Mexico, according to a Stanford University study released yesterday.
In the journal Nature Climate Change, he found "solid evidence" that high temperatures increase suicide rates, according to a university note.
"The thousands of additional suicides that are likely to occur as a result of a change" The unmixed climate is not just a figure, they represent tragic losses for families across the country. country, "said the professor and director of the study on Marshall Burke in statements in the statement
. Suicide data over several decades in the counties of the United States and Mexico, in addition to even studying the language used in social networks. 19659002] The team used global climate model projections and calculated that the increase in temperature by 2050 could increase suicide rates by 1.4% in the United States and 2, 3% in Mexico, which would represent 21,000 more cases in the United States.
Burke, an economist at the School of Earth Sciences, Energy and Environment Stanford, added that the effects of high temperatures differ little according to "the wealth of populations and if they are accustomed to warm climates. 19659002] Solomon Hsiang, co-author of the study and professor at the University of California at Berkeley, explains that for years the effects of warming on conflict and violence have been studied, revealing revelations according to which people are fighting over, now it is estimated that in addition to hurting others, some people get hurt.
"It seems that heat deeply affects the human spirit and how we decided to inflict damage," Hsiang added. (EFE)
Victims. The heat wave in Japan has already claimed more than 40 deaths and thousands of people suffering from physical illnesses.
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