Arctic Circle sees 'highest-ever' recorded temperatures

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53140069?fbclid=IwAR0sE50pT6GP8RIXhnOcuZexoQpwSxKgSJz5WCt3uv-Z2BNzy6PrmEhYGKY

Temperatures in the Arctic Circle are likely to have hit an all-time record on Saturday, reaching a scorching 38C (100F) in Verkhoyansk, a Siberian town.

The record still needs to be verified, but it appears to have been 18C higher than the average maximum daily temperature in June.

Hot summer weather is not uncommon in the Arctic Circle, but recent months have seen abnormally high temperatures.

The Arctic is believed to be warming twice as fast as the global average.

Verkhoyansk, home to about 1,300 people, sits just inside the Arctic Circle, in remote Siberia. It has an extreme climate with temperatures plunging in January to an average maximum of -42C and then surging in June to 20C.

But a persistent heatwave this year in the Arctic Circle has worried meteorologists. In March, April and May, the Copernicus Climate Change service reported that the average temperature was around 10C above normal.

That must be more evidence of the new ice age we're entering ....... right bobby?

It's covered here:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1464603949/6380


Re: New Ice Age..
Reply #6380 - Today at 7:05am 
Meanwhile - northeastern Russia is too hot!

you use the term 'covered' loosely don't you? :D :D :D

John Smith wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2020 at 7:00pm:

you use the term 'covered' loosely don't you? :D :D :D

Well it's mentioned -
at least it's not ignored -
as Monk your boss,  ignores record cold events.

38C in the arctic circle
https://as1.ftcdn.net/jpg/02/25/46/50/500_F_225465036_DRRipxcNlH7dDovaGDEbZ982kcYGhIYl.jpg

Bobby. wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2020 at 7:04pm:

John Smith wrote on Jun 23rd, 2020 at 7:00pm: you use the term 'covered' loosely don't you? :D :D :D Well it's mentioned - at least it's not ignored - as Monk your boss,  ignores record cold events.

so not covered.... you lied..... again

A whole 0.7C over the 2nd hottest evah. Time to get really scared. ;D ;D ;D ;D

"Verkhoyansk is further than 200 kilometers from the nearest reliable weather station, so the weather-related data on this page were taken entirely from NASA's MERRA-2 satellite-era reanalysis . This reanalysis combines a variety of wide-area measurements in a state-of-the-art global meteorological model to reconstruct the hourly history of weather throughout the world on a 50-kilometer grid. "

https://weatherspark.com/m/143301/1/Average-Weather-in-January-in-Verkhoyansk-Russia

That's ok then. The warmunistas don't like satellite temperature reconstructions. And a 50km grid? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

The increasing temperatures in Siberia have been linked to prolonged wildfires that grow more severe every year and the thawing of the permafrost — a huge problem because buildings and pipelines are built on them. Thawing permafrost also releases more heat-trapping gas and dries out the soil, which increases wildfires, said Vladimir Romanovsky, who studies permafrost at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

“In this case it’s even more serious, because the previous winter was unusually warm,” Romanovsky said. The permafrost thaws, ice melts, the soil subsides and then it can trigger a feedback loop that worsens permafrost thawing and “cold winters can’t stop it,” Romanovsky said.

A catastrophic oil spill from a collapsed storage tank last month near the Arctic city of Norilsk was partly blamed on melting permafrost. In 2011, part of a residential building in Yakutsk, the biggest city in the Sakha Republic, collapsed due to thawing and subsidence of the ground.

Persistently warm weather, especially if coupled with wildfires, causes permafrost to thaw faster, which in turn exacerbates global warming by releasing large amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that’s 28 times stronger than carbon dioxide, said Katey Walter Anthony, a University of Alaska Fairbanks expert on methane release from frozen Arctic soil.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/arctic-fire-siberian-heat-wave-alarms-scientists-71421935

Of course it could be that Arctic Methane is more susceptible to warming generally than Alaska -

"As Alaska warms, methane emissions appear stable"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160622144912.htm

Yes Arctic methane gets heated by Russian oil-waste flares and forms mini hurricanes which cause drought.  It's the dead pine needles which rot into black dust that makes Greenland go slushy.

That town is much like the situation of Canberra.
It's in a valley which is reputed to be the coldest place on earth beyond the Poles. Where the locals even have their cheeks frozen to some degree.
But like Canberra - very cold in winter, but stuffy hot in summer. That town would not be a good indicator as surrounding areas higher up out of the valley would not be as 'stuffy hot'.