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Temperature reaches 30°C in central Tokyo – latest ‘midsummer day’ on record since 1875

Japan's weather agency officially calls any day at thirty degrees or higher a midsummer day; Tokyo's October average high is about twenty-one degrees.

On air: Gloria Vance and Kenji Moonfield on BBN After Hours
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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorIn Tokyo today, the temperature reached thirty degrees Celsius, which Japan's weather agency officially calls a midsummer day, the latest one since records began in eighteen seventy-five.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe average October high there is about twenty-one, so the city ran nine degrees over.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo October got a summer patch nobody asked for. Somebody tap update and roll it back.

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