Autumn temperatures in Tokyo beat century-old record

The mercury hit 27.5 deg C just past noon in Tokyo on Tuesday, creeping past the 27.3 deg C mark set in November 1923. - AFP

TOKYO: Travelling to Tokyo soon? You might want to hold back from packing down jackets and fleece after the temperature in the Japanese capital on Tuesday (Nov 7) beat a century-old record, according to figures from the country’s Meteorological Agency.

In what has been an unusually warm autumn, the mercury hit 27.5 deg C just past noon in Tokyo on Tuesday, creeping past the 27.3 deg C mark set in November 1923.