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State of the Climate in Asia 2023
April 29 , 2024
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- The World Meteorological Organisation released the 2023 ‘State of the Climate in Asia’ report.
- The Asian continent is struggling with the extreme climate events like floods and heatwaves, with record-breaking temperatures and precipitation reported across its countries.
- It also repeated that the year 2023 was the warmest on record around the world.
- More than 2,000 people were killed and more than nine million were affected by extreme climate events across Asia in 2023.
- More than 80% of these events were related to storms and floods.
- In India, severe heat waves in April and June killed around 110 people by heat stroke.
- The highest temperature recorded at the Beijing Observatory was 41.1 degrees C, the second highest since records began in 1951.
- Japan also experienced its hottest summer on record since 1898.
- The Hong Kong Observatory headquarters recorded an hourly rainfall total of 158.1 mm on September 7, the highest since records began in 1884.
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