Extreme climate hits Japan, elsewhere in Asia hard in 2023: U.N

Asia, including Japan, is warming faster than the global average, as the trend has nearly doubled since the 1961-1990 period and many countries in the region observed their hottest year on record in 2023, according to a U.N. weather agency.The annual mean near-surface temperature over Asia last year was the second highest on record, particularly high from western Siberia to central Asia and from eastern China to Japan, with Japan seeing its hottest summer on record, the World Meteorological Organization said in its report released in late April.WMO Secretary General Celeste Saluo pointed ou…READ FULL ARTICLE