This year’s September was the warmest that Japan has known in the last 125 years while the country has already broken heat records during the summer, the national meteorological service (JMA) has announced, as the entire planet is headed for record heat.

The average temperature in the archipelago in September was 2.66 degrees Celsius higher than normal, the JMA clarified yesterday, Monday.

This is the highest number since 1898 when comparable statistics were adopted, the JMA said in a statement, which had previously announced that Japan’s June-August average temperatures were the highest ever recorded in the country.

These observations are in line with those being made around the planet, which is on track to break the annual heat record in 2023. After already recording the hottest quarter on record during the Northern Hemisphere summer (June-July-August), the world is seeing the effects of human-caused climate change reinforced in recent months by the return, over Pacific, of the El Niño cyclical phenomenon, which is synonymous with a further increase in temperature.

September 2023 it also became by far the warmest September on record in Germany, Poland, Switzerland or France, where the national weather service said on Friday last month’s average temperature was “between 3.5 and 3.6 degrees Celsius” higher from the reference period 1991-2020.

THE Britain also experienced its warmest September ever, with an average temperature equal to the record of 2006, the local meteorological services announced yesterday, Monday.