Several temperature records have been broken in Siberia as the temperature in the Russian region soared above 38 degrees Celsius.

It’s early June and records are falling in many parts of Siberia as extreme heat reaches the unusually far north. Temperatures in Yalturovsk hit 37.9 degrees Celsius last Saturday, the hottest day on record, according to climatologist Maximiliano Herrera, who tracks extreme temperatures around the world.

Since then, a series of temperature records have been set in Siberia.

On Wednesday, several absolute heat records were broken, including in Bayevo, where the temperature reached 39.6 degrees Celsius, and in Barnaul, where the temperature reached 38.5 degrees.

Some of these stations have temperature records spanning five to seven decades, Mr. Herrera told CNN. “So we can say it’s really outstanding.” It is “the worst heatwave in the region’s history,” he tweeted Wednesday.

Another incredibly hot day in Asia: 47°C in China and 39°C in Siberia, where more records were set:

all the time

38.0 Zdvinsk
35.6 Tomsk draw

monthly

38.2 Kupino
36.7 Kolyvan
36.3 Ermakovskoye
35.3 Tastyp

In the highlands of India

29.9C Cherrapunji new monthly record pic.twitter.com/f2fY77AH6z

— Extreme temperatures around the world (@extremetemps) June 8, 2023

It looks like the situation will even worsen: “Today, records continue to fall, the temperature is again around 40 degrees Celsius,” Mr. Herrera told CNN on Thursday.

Scientific analysis is pending to assess how much climate change impacted this event, but we know that global warming is causing more extreme temperatures, especially at higher latitudes, near the Earth’s poles.

A particularly intense and prolonged heat wave in 2020 in the Arctic Siberian city of Verkhoyansk, which reached 38 degrees Celsius, would have been “virtually impossible” without anthropogenic climate change, according to an analysis by an international team of scientists.

Siberia tends to experience large monthly and annual temperature fluctuations, but there has been a strong warming trend in recent decades.

“Siberia is one of the fastest warming regions on the planet, with temperature extremes becoming more intense,” said Omar Badur, head of climate monitoring and policy at the World Meteorological Organization.

The region “has had some very strong heatwaves,” said Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the European Union’s Copernicus climate change agency. “These heatwaves are having a significant impact on people and nature and will happen more often if we don’t quickly curb greenhouse gas emissions,” he said.

Source: CNN