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Dozens of heat records have fallen in Siberia as temperatures soared above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.7 degrees Celsius).
Despite it only being early June, records are falling in parts of Siberia as extreme heat pushes into unusually high latitudes.
Last Saturday, temperatures reached 37.9 degrees Celsius (100.2 Fahrenheit) in Jalturovosk, the hottest day on record, according to climatologist Maximiliano Herrera, who tracks temperature extremes around the world.
Since then, many temperature records have fallen in Siberia.
Various all-time heat records broke on Wednesday, including in Baevo, which reached 39.6 degrees Celsius (103.3 Fahrenheit), and Barnaul, which reached 38.5 degrees Celsius (101.3 Fahrenheit).
Some of these stations have five to seven decades of temperature records, Herrera told CNN. “So we can say that it is truly exceptional.” It’s the region’s “worst heat wave on record,” he tweeted Wednesday.
And it looks like it’s only going to get worse. “Records continue to fall today with temperatures again around 40 degrees Celsius,” Herrera told CNN on Thursday.
Another brutally hot day in Asia with 47ºC in China and 39ºC in Siberia, where more records fell:
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38.0 Zdvinsk
35.6 Tomsk those
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38.2 Kupino
36.7 Kolyvan
36.3 Ermakovskoe
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29.9C Cherrapunji new monthly record pic.twitter.com/f2fY77AH6z
— Extreme temperatures in the world (@extremetemps) June 8, 2023
Scientific analysis can be done to assess what influence climate change is having on this event, but we know that global warming is causing more extreme temperatures, especially at higher latitudes.
A particularly intense and prolonged heat wave in 2020, which saw the Arctic Siberian city of Verkhoyansk reach 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), would have been “almost impossible” without human-caused climate change, a analysis by a team of international scientists. .
Siberia tends to see large monthly and annual temperature fluctuations, but recent decades have seen a strong warming trend.
“Siberia is one of the fastest warming regions on the planet with hot extremes increasing in intensity,” Omar Baddour, head of the World Meteorological Organization’s climate policy and monitoring services, told CNN.
The region “has seen very intense heat waves,” said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. “These heat waves have important implications for people and nature and will continue to happen more frequently unless we rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” he told CNN.
Like wildfire season catch in the Northern Hemisphere, Siberia, along with Canada, has also been struggling with significant and intense wildfires. A shot that ravaged Russia’s Ural Mountains in May, killing at least 21 people.
Extreme heat is likely to make wildfires worse.
It’s not just Siberia that has seen record heat this week. It has spread throughout Central Asia. In early April, Turkmenistan saw temperatures of 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 Fahrenheit), which was “a world record for this latitude,” Herrera said.
Since then, the heat has not let up, with heat waves sweeping the region.
Wednesday, temperatures of more than 45 degrees Celsius (111.2 Fahrenheit) were recorded in China, 43 degrees Celsius (109.4 Fahrenheit) in Uzbekistan and 41 degrees Celsius (105.8) in Kazakhstan.
is “a historic heat wavewhich is rewriting global climate history,” Herrera said on Twitter.
