Skip to content
World Weather Attribution header
  • Home
  • About
    • FAQs
    • Methods
    • Information for journalists
  • Analyses
    • Drought
    • Extreme rainfall
    • Heatwave
    • Storms
    • Cold spells
    • Wildfire
    • Study tracker
  • News
  • Peer reviewed research
    • Methodological papers
    • Event papers
follow us on X
follow us on X
Previous image
Next image

japan-wettest-day-anomalies

Maps showing the relative anomlaies of the wettest day of the year in 2018 and 2012

Figure 5. Relative anomalies of the wettest day of the year (RX1day) in 2018 (left) and 2012 (right). A value of zero denotes an extreme like the long-term average; a value of one (dark blue), twice as much rainfall on the wettest day than the long-term average.

Posted on 25 July 201825 July 2018 Full size 1559 × 570

Post navigation

Published injapan-wettest-day-anomalies

Recent Posts

  • Effective emergency management prevented larger catastrophe after climate change fueled heavy rains in Central Mississippi river valley
  • Climate change made weather conditions leading to deadly South Korean wildfires about twice as likely
  • High vulnerability and exposure main driver behind Kinshasa’s deadly floods following heavy, but not unusual rainfall
  • Extraordinary March heatwave in Central Asia up to 10 °C hotter in a warming climate
  • Consecutive extreme heat and flooding events in Argentina highlight the risk of managing increasingly frequent and intense hazards in a warming climate

Categories

  • Cold spells
  • Drought
  • Extreme rainfall
  • Heatwave
  • News
  • Partners
  • Projects
  • Storms
  • Wildfire
World Weather Attribution Logo

About

  • Contact us
  • About this site
  • Cookies
  • Privacy policy
  • Accessibility

Partners

  • Imperial College London
  • Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
  • Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre