2024-03-19 11:28:53
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Abnormal weather is occurring one after another all over the world due to global warming, right?
In Brazil, on the other side of the world, autumn is approaching, and the heat is rampant, with temperatures exceeding 60 degrees Celsius.
Additionally, it is said that cherry blossoms bloomed earlier in Washington D.C. for the second time since observations were made.
Reporter Kyung-mi Lee will report.
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This is a beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
It is crowded with vacationers visiting the sea to escape the scorching heat.
As summer transitions into fall, unseasonable heat waves are rampant in central and southern Brazil.
Last weekend, the perceived temperature in Rio de Janeiro recorded 62.3 degrees Celsius.
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″Under this scorching sun, there is no other way than cold water and air conditioning. It’s truly terrible. It’s like desert heat. It’s really too hot.″
This is the highest recorded temperature since it began measuring perceived temperatures in 2014, and the Korea Meteorological Administration explained that this heat wave was caused by hot air masses from Argentina and Paraguay forming a ‘thermal dome’, trapping hot air on the Earth’s surface.
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“It clearly shows that most deaths from extreme weather events, which are rapidly increasing globally, are due to heat waves, not landslides or floods.”
The Korea Meteorological Administration said that because of this, summer, which was scheduled to officially end on the 20th of this month, is likely to be longer.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the flowering season is being brought forward due to the effects of warming.
Cherry blossoms are already in full bloom in Washington DC, USA, where many cherry trees are planted and the Cherry Blossom Festival is held every year.
Cherry blossoms around Tidal Basin, a major cherry blossom tourist destination, bloomed two weeks earlier than usual, the second-earliest peak since records began in 1921.
As the average temperature in March has continued to rise over the past 100 years, the average blooming period has also moved forward by 6 days from April 4 to March 30.
The Washington Post reported that the period from flowering to full bloom of cherry blossoms in Washington DC was only 15 days, the shortest in the past 20 years.
This is Gyeongmi Lee from MBC News.
Video Editing: Park Cheon-gyu
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