Temperatures in Sapporo exceeded 25°C on Monday, breaking a heat record for this time of year. Sapporo is the capital of the island of Hokkaido, in the far north of Japan.
The average temperature in this coldest region of Japan for April 15 is 11.5 degrees. The previous record for the earliest time to see the thermometer reach 25 degrees was on April 20, 1998 (25.1 degrees) “We cannot exclude the possibility that climate change played a role” in this record early heat, an official at the station said.. Sweden experienced its earliest start to summer on record at the beginning of April, with temperatures of more than 10°C for five consecutive days in three cities in the south of the country. At the global level, with a new temperature record in March, the last twelve months have been the hottest ever recorded on the planet (+1.58°C warmer than in the pre-industrial era in the 19th century)