Weather officials are warning that temperatures across Japan could fall to their lowest levels in a decade, affecting transportation and freezing of water pipes. They advise people to prepare for heavy snowfall and low temperatures and not to go out in bad weather.
Weather officials are warning that temperatures across Japan could fall to their lowest levels in a decade, affecting transportation and freezing of water pipes. They advise people to prepare for heavy snowfall and low temperatures and not to go out in bad weather.
The Meteorological Agency reported that the effects of a wintry weather pattern have already brought snow, mostly to areas along the Sea of Japan coast from north to west Japan.
In China, the northern city of Mohe on Sunday broke the record for the coldest temperature since 1969 in the country’s history, with the lowest temperature plunging to minus 53 degrees Celsius.
The record was set at a weather station in the town of Amur in Mohe City, Heilongjiang Province, marking the lowest temperature ever recorded in the province and the lowest ever observed by China’s weather system.
The value broke the previous record of minus 52.3 degrees Celsius.
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