Tokyo's temperature exceeds 35 degrees for 9 consecutive days, setting new record for longest hot summer

  Overseas Network, July 3. According to the news from Jiji News Agency on the 3rd, at 12 noon that day, the temperature in the central area of ​​Tokyo reached 35.3 degrees Celsius. The hot summer weather has lasted for 9 days, and the temperature has exceeded 35 degrees, refreshing the record since 1875. The longest hot summer on record.

  According to Nippon TV, recently, people in Tokyo have been suffering from heat stroke.

Since last week, 1,445 people in Tokyo have been hospitalized due to heatstroke. During June, 17 people died of heatstroke, 16 of whom were over 60 years old.

Even after 9 p.m., the temperature in Tokyo was above 30 degrees, making it hard for residents to sleep.

Japanese doctors pointed out that 40% of heatstroke patients suffer from illness at night.

  Japanese media said that many places in Japan continued to be "disaster-level" hot. As of 1 pm on the 3rd, the temperature in 18 areas of Japan exceeded 35 degrees, and the temperature in 420 areas exceeded 30 degrees.

Among them, Date City, Fukushima Prefecture, had the highest temperature at 37.7 degrees, Fukushima City was 36.8 degrees, and Iwate Prefecture was 36.3 degrees, ranking second and third respectively.

(Overseas Network Wang Shanning)