Hundreds in Hiroshima region evacuate amid downpours as rainy season begins in much of Japan
Heavy rainfall hit parts of western Japan beginning early Friday, causing more than 800 people to evacuate their homes and disrupting train services throughout the region. In Hiroshima Prefecture alone, 775 people had fled to shelters as of 10 a.m. Friday, while dozens more in ...
1,251 heatstroke sufferers taken to hospitals across Japan last week
A total of 1,251 people across the nation were taken to hospitals by ambulance due to heatstroke in the week to Sunday, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday. The number dropped from the previous week's 2,053 but almost doubled from the 659 seen ...
India heat wave prompts warnings as temperatures pass 50 degrees Celsius
Temperatures passed 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in northern India as an unrelenting heat wave triggered warnings of water shortages and heatstroke. The thermometer hit 50.6 degrees Celsius (123 Fahrenheit) in the Rajasthan desert city of Churu on Saturday, the weather department said. All of Rajasthan ...
Record floods breach Arkansas levee and overtop two more in Missouri
Relentless flooding in the central U.S. on Friday inundated communities and damaged or spilled over levees on three major rivers in two states, and authorities discovered the body of a drowning victim at a Missouri lake. The fast-flowing Arkansas River smashed a 40-foot (12-meter) hole ...
Central U.S. river flood risk mounts as rain lets up after deadly twisters
Rain-swollen rivers threatened more flooding on Thursday in Arkansas, Louisiana, Illinois and Oklahoma, as Tulsa's mayor warned that the decades-old levee system in his city would be at risk even as waters receded through the weekend. Since early last week, a spate of deadly tornadoes ...
Biggest series of tornadoes in years carve through U.S. Midwest and beyond
A vicious storm tore through the Kansas City area, spawning tornadoes that downed trees and power lines, damaged homes and injured at least a dozen people in the latest barrage of severe weather that saw tornado warnings as far east as New York City. Parts ...
3 dead as unseasonably high temperatures continue across Japan
Three women died and around 10 students were taken to hospitals Monday due to heatstroke symptoms as unseasonably hot weather continued in Japan, authorities have said. The mercury topped 30 degrees Celsius for a fourth straight day in central Tokyo, setting a new record for ...
Two die and nearly 600 taken to hospitals as heat wave roasts much of Japan
With a reading of 39.5 C, the town of Saroma, in eastern Hokkaido, sets the highest temperature ever recorded in the country for the month of May.
Weather agency warns of heatstroke as temperature rises above 30 C in some parts of nation
Temperatures rose across Japan on Saturday to highs usually not seen until the height of summer, prompting the weather agency to issue heatstroke warnings. The city of Taketa, in Oita Prefecture, marked 35.0 C, the hottest in the country so far this year, while ...
Heavy rain lashed Japan's main island of Honshu on Tuesday, disrupting rush-hour transport and prompting one city to advise residents to evacuate. The western city of Wakayama was deluged by 55.5 millimeters of rain per hour during the early morning — a record for May ...
Japan's weather agency to extend range of temperature forecasts from seven days to 12
To allow people to better prepare for upcoming weather, the Meteorological Agency will next month begin offering temperature forecasts for 12 days instead of the current seven. The forecasts will be published on the agency's official website every day at around 2:30 p.m. starting June ...
Heavy rain continued to lash Kyushu on Monday after stranding more than 300 people on a mountain on Yakushima island over the weekend. The Meteorological Agency warned torrential rain may cause landslides and floods, and issued a caution on the threat of tornadoes and lightning ...
