Startling toll reported in Japanese heat wave

[Gabby Hayes]

Could someone in Japan post an update on this situation? News of the heat wave has been slow to surface outside the country and those reports have been inconsistent. (I have seen reports of at least two dozen fatalities with thousands hospitalized.) Are these record-setting temperatures? And what are the heat indices? Thanks.

[AsahinaKimi]

1. Couple of links for you

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120730p2a00m0na005000c.html

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120730a2.html

[Gabby Hayes]

5. Thanks for the info

Kids should never have to worry about getting sick or dying while playing in the summertime.

Perhaps most striking of all is the range of people being felled by the heat.

It will be of utmost importance to monitor those sickened long after this has passed. Even an isolated heat-related problem like the ones described in the articles can lay health traps down the road.

[AsahinaKimi]

7. and the fact this is happening in Japan

Which of late has hit one disaster after another.. as they say in Japanese...Ame ga fureba kanarazu doshaburi! When it rains, it pours.

[Gabby Hayes]

9. We see the gentle worry lines every day.......

.......in the faces of the Japanese Cowboys and Cowgirls who live among us in Texas. Their patience and faith make us all try our best to be better planetary citizens.
Bless your hearts.

[XemaSab]

2. this says 8

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120730a2.html

[Gabby Hayes]

6. Thank you too

Was noticing the RSOE EDIS site out of Hungary estimates the situation has reached Level Five two days in a row, which is fairly unusual for them. Their description varies some from other reports, but here is what they have to say:

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HT-20120725-35918-JPN

[Berlum]

3. how hot? 38.4 Celsius - 101.2 F

[Berlum]

4. Memo to Republicans: Please stop lying about this shit

Your reality-twisting lies are WAY beyond stoopid, and by now well into the EVIL zone.

[Gabby Hayes]

8. 101.2 + high humidity + ozone levels =

The urgent need to drink lots of water and sports drink the night before and all through the day, between long naps on a big floor pillow in front of the AC. Hopefully sunscreen is also selling like hotcakes because these are the types of events which can trigger skin cancer epidemics down the line.

[AsahinaKimi]

11. atsui desuyo! (Its hot!)

101.2 is hot! With High humidity makes it worse. I have lived in Arizona where it got up to 115 degrees, but that is dry heat. I have been where the temperature was a mere 85 degrees with high humidity. Its so muggy you can hardly breath. I will take the dry heat anytime over high humidity.

Japan gets soaked from the monsoon season there, the rainy season. But all that moisture in the soil adds to the humidity with higher temperatures. There are some days, even an uchiwa doesn't help.


young lady with uchiwa ~Japanese fan

[NNN0LHI]

10. Rec