TOKYO-Just days after Japan's northernmost island Hokkaido baked in record heat, an unseasonablycold snap saw temperatures plunging on Thursday( Aug 12) to among their lowest on record for the month.At the same time, the island of Kyushu in the south-west is being pounded by a torrential deluge, with some areas encountering in a single day what is typically a full month's worth of precipitation for August. These extreme weather patterns are raising concerns about the impact of climate change on
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2021-08-12 00:00:00.0