Hokkaido sizzling in temperatures as high as 39.5 deg C as unseasonal heat wave grips Japan

TOKYO - Japan sweltered under an unseasonal heat wave on Sunday (May 26) that rewrote heat records for the month of May, as the mercury surged above 38 deg C in many parts of the northernmost island of Hokkaido.

The temperature hit 39.5 deg C in the coastal town of Saroma at 2.07pm (1.07pm in Singapore) in north-east Hokkaido, surpassing the previous national record for May - 37.2 deg C - set in 1993 in Chichibu city in Saitama prefecture, north-west of Tokyo.

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