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Japan is known for its vibrant autumn season with a foliage of red and yellow leaves raising a colourful canopy upon spotlessly clean roads. This time, however, there’s a marked delay in the colouring of those leaves as the land of the samurais and the rising sun battles climate change.
Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has reported that this year’s autumn is the warmest autumn ever recorded.
“This year was 1.97 degrees Celsius higher than usual... making it the hottest autumn since 1898, when statistics began,” the Japan Meteorological Agency posted on its official website.
The news of Japan recording the warmest autumn ever comes two months after the island country experienced the hottest summer.
It is reported that due to the delayed colouring of the leaves in Japan, a Kyoto-based railway company which is known for running trains through these brightly coloured landscapes has extended its schedule
In Kyoto, a railway company known for running trains through forests of illuminated maple trees at night has extended its schedule because leaf colours haven’t changed due to warmer temperatures.
An adversely changing climate has been altering the weather patterns across the globe. However, it is only after socio-cultural icons are affected when public attention is drawn towards the looming threat.
The famous snow-covered peak of Mount Fuji was found to be bereft of snow for the longest period ever. Generally, the snow is visible in early October but this year the cherished sight was only visible by early November.
India has had a similar experience.
In September, Down To Earth (DTE) reported that the snowless Om Parvat in Uttarakhand stood in mute testimony to an adversely changing climate.
“There could hardly be a more dramatic manifestation of the adversely changing climate than the erasure of a religious symbol from the upper reaches of the Himalayas. The Om Parvat in Uttarakhand has been revered by many due to snow forming the Sanatan symbol ‘Om’ on its peak. But this year, for the first time, there has been no snow on its apex,” a news report dated September 2, mentioned.