The Left’s obsession with Russia continues – This time it’s a high temperature record.
Over the past few days, social media and news media have been overheating over a new high temperature record in Russia far north Siberia. For example, in this trending tweet, a claim of “literally on fire”.
Founder of the climate activist organization, 350.org, the ever over-alarmed Bill McKibben, who once wrote an essay crying about wilting corn during a heat wave earning him the title of “weepy Bill”, Tweeted on the tentative new record set in Verkhoyansk Siberia, touted by the Washington Post:
“Siberian town tops 100 degrees F, the hottest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle. This scares me, I have to say.”
He’s scared? Obviously, he’s invoking the great universal boogeyman of “climate change” as the culprit here. After all, it’s what he does for a living. Predictably, The Independent called it part of the “climate crisis”.
But, what about the other times when it got that hot above the Arctic circle, before there was even a glimmer of “global warming” aka “climate change” becoming a science social justice cause?
For example, this Associated Press article says:
“…it was 100 degrees on June 27, 1915, in Fort Yukon, [Alaska] according to official records of the National Weather Service. Records date back to 1904.”
Inconveniently, that pretty much cools down Bill’s claim of “the hottest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle”. Both Verkhoyansk, Siberia and Fort Yukon, Alaska are well above the latitude that defines the Arctic Circle. How is it, that in 1915, when “climate change” supposedly due to increased carbon dioxide in our atmosphere wasn’t even a factor, it got that hot? Inquiring minds want to know.
Or how about the fact that the previous record in Verkhoyansk was 37.3C (99.1F) in 1988, also before “climate change” was even an issue on anyone’s radar, and CO2 in the atmosphere then was just below the 350 parts per million that Bill McKibben considers “safe” ?
FYI, 350.org was founded on that value.
What the Washington Post, “Weepy Bill”, and others who are using this tentative record to justify their views on “climate change” are ignoring is that Verkhoyansk is also the record holder for the coldest temperature record outside of Antarctica. In February 1892, it dropped to a shocking -90.0 degrees F, the coldest temperature ever recorded there. Verkhoyansk’s average low in January is -55 degrees Fahrenheit, and temperatures there regularly drop to -70 degrees Fahrenheit or below.
So, how can a place be both a poster child for global warming aka “climate change” and ice-age like global cooling at the same time? The answer is; it has the most highly variable temperature range on the planet due to its geography and normal meteorological patterns.
Verkhoyansk has an extreme subarctic climate dominated much of the year by high pressure. This has the effect of cutting off the region from warming influences in winter and together with a lack of cloud cover leads to extensive cold during the cooler months. In the summer, the opposite is true, leading to excessively high temperatures.
According to the Moscow Times:
“Verkhoyansk holds the Guinness World Record for the highest recorded temperature range of 105 C, fluctuating from minus 68 C to a high of 37 C. The previous temperature record for the isolated town of around 1,300 residents stood at 37.3 C in July 1988.”
In other words, such extremes are normal for the place. With just over a hundred years of temperature records there, and the planet being billions of years old, it isn’t at all surprising that we still haven’t measured the extremes of natural variation, both hot and cold, for this place.
It never reached 100F, that was a media created lie, to sensationalize a heat wave.
I looked it up, the actual high was 97F , which isn’t even a record for the date. Look at the June 20 data in the link.
Here is what I posed elsewhere:
Bloomberg didn’t give us a link to show it was really 100F yesterday, but I can show you the link that showed it was actually 97F yesterday, which means it wasn’t a record high for the date.
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The link is to the climatology of the city.
“I can show you the link that showed it was actually 97F yesterday”
What the link actually says is:
“Past, current, or predicted temperature values displayed in a weather report may not always represent the warmest or coldest temperature for a location on a particular day.”
They show the maximum of readings taken on the hour.
Your rationalization is hilarious, since it is still 4 days later the OFFICIAL high for the date, which is 97F
Bloomberg never provided evidence that it was 100F, something YOU failed to notice….., neither did the Washington Post:
It will never be verified since the media is LYING about it.
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Meanwhile I posted the official data and the link to the source behind it, which shows it was 97F. How come you ignore that revelation?
Because it’s Nick Stokes 😀
“the OFFICIAL high for the date”
Who said it’s OFFICIAL. You are just reading off from a weather site graph, whose makers give a caution that it does not provide the maximum temperature.
Here is the WMO listing the temperature Bloomberg quotes as a potential record. They will do a bit more further checking. But you can’t get more official than that.
WHO states:
“The World Meteorological Organization is seeking to verify a reported new record temperature north of the Arctic Circle of 38° Celsius. This was on 20 June in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk amid a prolonged Siberian heatwave and increase in wildfire activity.”
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4 days now, still no verification of 100 degree F day, yet media all over the world treat like its a fact, it really happened. You seem to accept with no evidence at all.
Meanwhile I post the LINK to the official temperature data that still after 4 days, show a 97 F as the high. Yet YOU challenge it over and over while you accept the still unverified 100 degree F claim.
Did you really get a PHD level education, it isn’t showing very well here…..
Stokes, like any 3-4 letter Org anymore, WMO is corrupted/infiltrated by politicization. “Official” has lost any credibility.
Yet 97F is the LISTED temperature for that date, 5 days later, it is still 97F as the high.
If 5 days passes over simple raw temperature data being examined, then then by now it becomes obvious they can’t find the 100F in it.
You should realize this is a simple verification process, yet with NO verification after 5 days, YOU still cling to the mythical 100F number that nobody can find after 5 days……
You are trying hard to avoid that reality, it is hilarious that you continue to cling to a non existent number.
Rational people would by now accept the LISTED 97F as the official high for the date.
Snicker…..
The about page for you source of data says:
snicker .
In what way do you regard this as “the official” temperature for anywhere in the world
Their source is https://customweather.com/
This does not say whether these are WMO approved stations, some could be internet connected home stations. We don’t know. QA? No idea.
If the official station is reporting from a min/max thermometer, there is no reason to suggest this “hourly” data contradicts the stated maximum.
What you cite is NOT “the high for the day”, it is the highest on the hour measurement. You are a making false claim with great certainty because you running with bias confirmation. You set out to “debunk” the claim and them misinterpreted what you saw without question. You jumped to a false conclusion, yet will not admit it when Nick points out your error.
All the hype around this need busting but to do so effectively does not mean being just as baised but in the other direction.
we see here in New Zealand a lot of weather forecasts presented as if fact.
“record heatwave expected” most simple don’t happen but the narrative is established, it looks the same here, yes very hot 97F but not a record as predicted or hoped.
I checked out the link for 97 degrees F being the high temperature there according to timeanddate.com
I dug deeper there, and saw that what they mention as the high is the highest of readings they show that were taken 3 hours apart, with the second highest one being 3 hours earlier at 96 degrees F.
“Verkhoyansk holds the Guinness World Record for the highest recorded temperature range of 105 C, fluctuating from minus 68 C to a high of 37 C. The previous temperature record for the isolated town of around 1,300 residents stood at 37.3 C in July 1988.” yes it does yet the Northern plains of the US can see 106 F (41c) and -50 F (-45 C) I in my life time have seen in western North Dakota a spread 96C yes it 9 C off of the Verkhoyansk record but not something to write off. Oh by the way the -50 degree morning I experience was short lived it was 35 F by noon the next day, yes a 85 degree swing in a little over 24 hours. Note to public, the center of large land masses can see large temperature extremes.
“It is staggering +20-25C warmer than it should be …” (Scott from Scotland).
Scott apparently believes that there is authorized temperature for locations on the planet that ought to remain constant thermostat-style.
Above, Izaak is really concerned because the city has been above average for an entire week. How will the reindeer survive?
As they always say to us skeptics, let’s not confuse weather with climate.
Jan 2018:
Bangladesh recorded its lowest ever temperature in history at 2.6 degrees, under the influence of a severe cold wave prevailing through the northern districts.
I can’t remember anyone suggesting global cooling from such an event.
If alarmists didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.
Greenland recorded the lowest ever summer NH temperature in July 2017 and in Jan 2020 it was believed Greenland’s coldest ever temperature was recorded – also very close to the coldest ever recorded in the NH.
In the case of the latter it seems the minute by minute readings were ‘lost’ and a slightly colder record not previously widely cited seemed to come out of the woodwork, which combined to make it not so officially.
It was still one of the coldest temperatures ever registered in the NH though.
Australia recently broke over 100 cold records.
https://watchers.news/2020/05/01/records-tumble-as-cold-blast-sweeps-across-australia/
The MSM rarely mentions these cold records, yet alone talks in hyperbolic terms, yet it instantaneously feverishly reports the heat records before verification.
For the benefit of Scott from Scotland, it doesn’t look like the Siberian heatwave is set to continue at least not in Verkhoyansk.
Happily at timeanddate.com the Verkhoyansk Fourteen day Extended Forecast is readily available on line.
After a hot couple of weeks with temperatures ranging from 20 to 36, July 2 is showing a balmy 7 to 17.
I would invite all commentators to go online to this site.
It is as easy as looking up the weather forecast for your own city.
Here is a though for the ‘greenhouse gas‘ theory Fans,
How is it possible that the surface temperature drops below(!) the supposed greenhouse effect of 33 C above the SB temperature?
Let me know, I’m actually interested in a possible answer.
Best,
Willem
That’s easy. The 33C is an average for the entire planet.
Records are extreme value statistics and “Records are made to be broken.”.
From the article: “Verkhoyansk has an extreme subarctic climate dominated much of the year by high pressure. This has the effect of cutting off the region from warming influences in winter and together with a lack of cloud cover leads to extensive cold during the cooler months. In the summer, the opposite is true, leading to excessively high temperatures.”
I think that explains things perfectly.
If you have a place that is prone to have high-pressure systems hover over it all the time, then you can expect very cold temperatures in the winter, and very warm temperatures in the summer. That’s what high-pressure systems do. The variable is how long they sit on top of you.
Aged Siberian — “Thank the heavens, it finally warmed up in this dang place!”
“The arctic is screaming! [Mark Serreze – NSIDC]
You could leave the fake idea of “billions of years” out. Then your report would be free from undocumented theories.
There is no documented proof for the theory of “Billions of years”. “Billions of years” has “evolved” from the idea that a lot of time is needed to account for the change of species which has never been proven by those who hate the truth about creation having a Creator.
And in the UK, well certainly my SE corner it is very warm which of course means the crooks at the Met Office are already spouting ‘heatwave’ nonsense. A quick look at forecasts and the models on Ventusky show it all gone by the weekend. What they are trying to push for is a record June high so will trying everything to see if they can follow up the fake highest ever UK temperature from last year.
There giving wednesdays high at Heathrow’s airport 32.6c , that’s a heat sinsink area of tarmac and concrete. Thursday night will see the hot weather break down with thunder storms
Fox News website had an article on this, another alarmist screed. It quotes several times from a CliSci named Overpeck, I vaguely recognize his name. He was quoted in the article as saying “the Arctic has not seen this sustained warmth for thousands of years.” I wondered who was taking the temp back then in Siberia, the Romans? May be the Minoans? He seemed very certain of it.
Just a somewhat related aside to all of the above comments; back in the late 1980s I had to go to Fairbanks, AK on business.
It was during the summer – it never really got dark at night – and the temperatures were very near 100 degree F.
Of course, the flea bag motel I was staying in had no air conditioner; after all, nobody in Fairbanks, AK needs an air conditioner, right?
I realize that Fairbanks is about 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle, but until I went to Fairbanks, I never would have guessed it could get real hot there.
Live and learn.
This is all related to our magnetic pole/field and magnetism in general, which are also affecting the jet streams.
There are so many mechanisms at play here but one just needs to research magnetism to start piecing it together.
Found this info regarding the North magnetic pole on Wikipedia Gary.
“During the 20th century it moved 1,100 km (680 mi), and since 1970 its rate of motion has accelerated from 9 to 52 km (5.6 to 32.3 mi) per year (2001–2007 average.”
It’s interesting to see the graphics and how it’s moved about, through and out of Canada and now towards Siberia. Do we even know what affects this has on weather and indeed longer term climate?
Anyone else remember the Great Moscow Heatwave of 2010? It was during the last solar minimum, when there were several jet stream blocking events linked to low solar activity. And yep we’re now in the following solar minimum and yep we’re getting jet stream blocking events again.
Well the missing heat has to go somewhere with weather-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/ice-bomb-temperatures-plummet-to-2c-on-the-east-coast-as-queensland-shivers-through-the-coldest-day-of-the-year-and-forecasters-warn-the-worst-is-set-to-come/ar-BB15VWEo
Hyper-continental climate. Expect extremes on both ends of the spectrum. Ho hum…