Climate Events Hitting Across Globe: From Japan to Middle East to Pakistan and Even Scandinavia

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Summer 2025 is shaping up to be one of the most extreme on record, with devastating climate events hitting across the globe. Japan has recorded record-breaking heatwaves with over 53,000 heatstroke cases, while the Middle East battles scorching temperatures surpassing 50°C disrupting power and daily life. Pakistan faces catastrophic floods worsened by climate change, causing hundreds of deaths and widespread destruction. Even Scandinavian nations are not spared from unusual weather extremes this summer.&nbsp;

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00:00Record heat, massive fires, deadly floods.

00:13August has barely begun, but the summer of 2025 is already marked by a cascade of destructive

00:21and deadly weather in the Northern Hemisphere.

00:25The World Meteorological Organization confirms 2024 as the warmest year on record at about

00:321.55 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial level.

00:37That deceptively small jump makes a huge difference.

00:41Higher temperatures increase evaporation so that more water is stored in the atmosphere.

00:48This in turn increases the risk of heavy rainfall and flooding.

00:53Early in May, temperatures exceeded 50 degrees Celsius in the United Arab Emirates.

00:59On 1st of August, the thermometer hit 51.8 degrees Celsius, just under the all-time record of

01:0752 degrees.

01:10The entire Gulf region is suffocating.

01:13The Saudi capital Riyadh recorded temperatures of 44 degrees Celsius, while Kuwait frequently

01:19hit 50 degrees Celsius.

01:22As did Iraq, where air conditioning has become vulnerable to chronic power cuts, and water

01:27reserves are at their lowest level in years.

01:31Turkey saw the 50 degrees Celsius threshold exceed for the first time.

01:36The town of Silopi on the border with Iraq and Syria reached 50.5 degrees Celsius on 26 July.

01:44The country has experienced thousands of fires this summer amid a severe drought.

01:53In Asia, meanwhile, Japan broke its all-time temperature record on 5 August 2025 with 41.8

02:01degrees Celsius in the city of Issesaki, northwest of Tokyo.

02:07The country's iconic cherry trees, emblematic of the archipelago, are blooming earlier than

02:13ever due to the heat.

02:16On 5th of August 2025, Hong Kong saw the highest rainfall total for August in more than 140 years

02:23of record-keeping, 35.5 cm in a single day.

02:28On mainland China a week earlier, severe weather killed at least 44 people and left 9 missing

02:35in rural districts north of Beijing.

02:39266 people, nearly half of them children, have already lost their lives in Pakistan due to

02:46torrential rains sweeping across the country.

02:50The 2025 monsoon, which started early, was described as unusual by authorities.

02:55Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, recorded 73% more rainfall in July than in 2024.

03:06People come to Scandinavia to seek cooler climates.

03:09But since July, Norway, Sweden and Finland have experienced sustained temperatures more typical

03:16of the Mediterranean.

03:18August 3 marked the end of a 22-day period with temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius in

03:24Finland, a record.

03:26In Rovaniemi, a Finnish city north of the Arctic Circle, temperatures reached 30 degrees Celsius,

03:33higher than in southern Europe at the same time.

03:36Canada is also experiencing one of the worst forest fire seasons on record, amplified by drought

03:43and above-normal temperatures.

03:45Other parts of the world are also burning, from Scotland to Arizona and Greece.

03:51According to the European Union's Copernicus Weather and Climate Observatory, total smoke

03:56and greenhouse gas emissions since the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere are among

04:02the highest ever recorded.

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