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Foehns -- warm, dry, downslope winds descending the lee side of mountain slopes -- cause hazardous hot weather in parts of Japan. A new University of Tsukuba study presents the first comprehensive climatological analysis of Japan's south foehns on the Toyama Plain. Most foehns were caused by a dynamical mechanism and occurred while an extratropical cyclone was over the Sea of Japan, although some occurred with an anticyclone over Japan, and hazardous high-temperature foehns occurred with typhoons near Japan.

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