The name emerged as the most popular in a national online survey, with "super extremely hot day" in second place.
I had to look this up and I'm surprised this wasn't some wordplay that they just didn't bother to translate. It really was just stacking another modifier on the old hottest category. 超猛暑日/猛暑日 chomoshobi/moshobi
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Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone · 32 pts · 148d
Missed opportunity to name it after automanufacturers.
Especially given Toyota's lobbying against fuel efficiency standards.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 148d
We can call it Toyotathon days or happy Honda days!
night_petal@piefed.social · 1 pts · 147d
🎶 Olé, olé! Olé, olé! Toyota's hot hot hot! 🎶
spacesatan@leminal.space · 9 pts · 148d
I had to look this up and I'm surprised this wasn't some wordplay that they just didn't bother to translate. It really was just stacking another modifier on the old hottest category. 超猛暑日/猛暑日 chomoshobi/moshobi
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 148d
Name it the new normal. Because it's gonna be.
Aedis@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 148d
Surely BBC has nothing more important to report on if it's doing this. Right?
BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world · 5 pts · 148d
News isn't a zero sum game. Like, I don't think the White House correspondent or the middle east desk was working on this particular story.
Aedis@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 148d
True, but Japan coining a term like "it was a really hot day" is not really newsworthy is it?
athatet@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 148d
Not especially, no. But it is a good way to start talking about climate change, which is mainly what the article is actually about.
baines@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 148d
we’ve talked the existence of climate change to death
until we start seeing hard hitting accusatory pieces aimed at the actual major players I’m not really interested
another useless puff piece sanity-washing our collapse
hcf@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 148d
Down here in Florida, we just call it "a scorcher". 🥵
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 2 pts · 148d
Exxon days
Etterra@discuss.online · 1 pts · 147d
Paywalled
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 147d
Hotty McHot Day ?
Almacca@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 148d
Here in Brisbane, that's just January. Further north, it's even more usual.