Japan’s Northern Island Of Hokkaido Shock-Freezes…”Coldest Air Mass Ever Recorded”!

Record cold temperatures, transportation disrupted, fire extinguishers freeze as “coldest air mass ever” sweeps over Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido.

By Kirye

 

 

 

 

As the Asahi Shimbun here reports, Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido has been gripped by a deep freeze with the temperature plunging to -31.8°C in Rikubetsu on February 9.

Chart: Japan Meteorology Agency (JMA)

Three other observation stations in Hokkaido “also reported temperatures below minus 30 degrees,” the Japanese online daily reports.

10 stations set new record lows

In total yesterday, February 9, in Hokkaido Prefecture, 10 stations saw their temperatures reach record lows:

Image from the Japan Meteorology Agency (JMA)

Although some media outlets are claiming the record cold is due to a phenomenon that is often implied as being new and caused by global warming, it is in reality what people simply used to call a plain old ‘cold wave’.

The NOAA reports here that the “polar vortex” is in fact nothing new at all, and that the term had been used already 166 years ago, back in 1853!

Global warming causing “coldest ever” air masses?

The Japan Times here reported that it was “the coldest air mass ever recorded” to hit Hokkaido”.

How can global warming be causing record cold air masses? Air masses are supposed to be getting warmer, and not colder. Climate scientists are desperately scrambling to explain the inconvenient cold events.

Referring to the Japan Meteorology Agency (JMA), The Japan Times have written: “The agency said a cold air mass with a temperature of minus 24.4, the lowest seen since it began compiling such data in 1957, was hovering about 1,500 meters above Sapporo, which saw the mercury drop to minus 12.5 in the morning.”

Frozen fire extinguishers at nuclear power plant!

The cold is so severe that it even froze a fire extinguisher system at a nuclear power plant in Hokkaido, “due to a record cold weather,” reported the NHK World here.

Meanwhile further south in Tokyo, snow fell yesterday. The forecast is calling for cold conditions to grip Japan in the days ahead.
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Pierre contributed to this article.

7 responses to “Japan’s Northern Island Of Hokkaido Shock-Freezes…”Coldest Air Mass Ever Recorded”!”

  1. Yonason

    Hopefully Japanese climate scientists aren’t as corrupt (and/or incompetent) as their American…
    https://dailycaller.com/2015/03/09/more-evidence-of-climate-data-tampering-by-noaa/

    …or Australian counterparts.
    https://www.tapwires.com/2017/08/02/fraud-australias-bureau-of-meteorology-caught-erasing-record-low-temperatures

  2. Lance

    CO2 is also a very smart molecule….it picks and chooses where it shows up….

  3. Gary Gibson AKA Gibo

    Take a look at the ozone map for 9th february

    1. toorightmate

      Oh, Oh, Oh

  4. Derg

    But, but, but, what about the warming in Australia

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