atomicker<p>July 2025 was the 'hottest July on record'; 'average temperatures around Japan were 2.89 degrees higher than normal.'</p><p>'While rainfall across much of the nation was about half or less than in an average year, Yamagata city in the Tohoku region had only 8 millimeters of rain in July, which is 4 percent of an average year. Niigata city, in the center of another rice-growing region, only had 3.5 mm of rain, which was just 2 percent of an average year’s rainfall.'</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Heatwave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heatwave</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/NoPipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoPipelines</span></a></p>