From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
The highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic, 38C (100F), has been officially confirmed, sounding “alarm bells” over Earth’s changing climate.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday verified the record, reported in the Siberian town of Verkhoyansk on 20 June last year.
The temperature was 18C higher than the area’s average daily maximum for June.
The WMO, a UN agency, said the extreme heat was “more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic”.
It is the first time the agency has included the Arctic Circle in its archive of extreme weather reports.
The WMO said the 38C temperature was measured at a meteorological station during “an exceptional and prolonged Siberian heatwave“.
Last year’s extreme heat in the region contributed to the spread of wildfires, which swept across the forests and peatlands of northern Russia releasing record amounts of carbon.
While relatively common in summer months, high temperatures and strong winds made the fires unusually severe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59649066
One of the climate mafia’s favourite tricks is to prey on the public’s emotions and preconceptions.
Who could possibly imagine that you would get Mediterranean temperatures in the Arctic, for instance. After the Arctic means snow, ice and polar bears, doesn’t it?
The reality however is not what the BBC and WMO want you to know.
Summer temperatures in Siberia regularly peak at well over 30C. Although last year set a record of 38.C, the previous highest was only slightly lower at 37.3C, set as long ago as 1988.
The highest temperature this summer (not shown in the graph below) was a pretty normal figure of 33.1C, according to KNMI.
Maximum Daily Temperatures – 1928 to 2018
https://www.ecad.eu/indicesextremes/customquerytimeseriesplots.php
And apart from the exceptional temperature last year and in 1988, there is no evidence that Siberian summers are getting hotter in overall terms.
Indeed average summer temperatures at Verkhoyansk are no higher now than they were a century ago:
https://www.ecad.eu/indicesextremes/customquerytimeseriesplots.php
I wonder why the BBC/WMO don’t want us to know these facts?
The highest recorded temperature in Alaska was in the Interior, at Fort Yukon where the highest temperature reached was 100 °F (37.8 °C) on June 27, 1915. In summer the poles get more sunshine than the equator.
People get easily scared by the idea that cold places can get warm when the sun is shining 24 hours a day. It’s because they haven’t ever been outside of their sheltered environments created by fossil fuels.
As a geology student in 1961 I spent the Summer evaluating a prospect north of Yellowknife.
With so many hours of sunshine it would get hot.
Locals in the “old” part of town had wood-burning kitchen stoves that during the Summer were set up in the back yard to get away from the heat of the kitchen.
The big “climate change” story for Verkhoyansk is not the summer temperatures as discussed in the article, but rather the winter temperatures.
Over the last century, the average winter minimum temperatures have increased by a sweltering 4C. As has been observed elsewhere, much of the warming is in the winter and at night…
“I wonder why the BBC/WMO don’t want us to know these facts?”
…because they’re both full of lying lefty progressive propaganda elitists?
… just a guess.
“Historical research established from the national records of Arctic countries that there were no known temperatures of 38 °C or above at any Arctic locations. Specifically, after rigorous analysis the committee concluded that no past observations within Canada exceeded that value.”
Fort Yukon hit 100 F, as recorded. Only 37.8 C but not recorded to any decimal place. This new record was 38.0
Except for things like this years heatwave in Northern Lapland and another string of record Siberian temperatures… you know, small things like facts, observations and widespread evidence
Finland’s Arctic Lapland area swelters in record heatwave | Weather News | Al Jazeera
Arctic heat record is like Mediterranean, says UN – BBC News
And right now we are closing up on temperatures more befitting of Siberia here in the Mediterranean.
Well, North-Aegean that is. Lows of 3 C last night and forecasts of freezing conditions later in the forecast. And with high winds and humidity it is freaking cold. I am Norwegian, so I am not joking… Mean day T here in Des. is apx. 14 C. Forecast now says snow even in central-Greece lowlands (meteo). Brrrr
Time to invest in real estate in the arctic.
It’s a big planet- there will always, every day, be some place with a record whatever.
So, the human hating leftards at bbc and WMO are telling the same lies they always tell. Yawn.
If I were to use the BBC reasoning I could show that a very low temperature in a very hot place is proof of a new ice age.
From the article: “I wonder why the BBC/WMO don’t want us to know these facts?”
They have something to sell that doesn’t match reaity.
I don’t know about Siberian temps, but in the northern tier of the US it is not unusual at all to experience a brief spike in temp – what people before warmunism used to call a “heat wave” that would get close to 100 deg F. Just as subtropical areas like Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba etc usually get at least one cold front lasting a day or two with temps down in the mid to low 20s.
It’s called “weather” not “climate”.
I knew a guy back in the early 90’s (before “global warming” was a thing — we were still talking about acid rain and the ozone hole then…) who’d lived in northern Finland for a few years in the early 80’s and he indicated it could easily get up around 100 degrees north of the Arctic Circle since the sun never went down, so it never was able to cool off.
“And apart from the exceptional temperature last year and in 1988, there is no evidence that Siberian summers are getting hotter in overall terms.”
There most certainly is …..
https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2020/heat-siberia
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-remote-permafrost-thaws-threatening-homes-infrastructure-2021-10-18/
Not quite right. Paul’s plot shows ‘max’ temps, not ‘average’. When you look at the ‘mean of the mean daily temperature’ using the same source you can see that location set record mean summer temperatures this year. The source data also show a summer warming trend of +0.25C per decade since 1950. So yes, warming.
I recall 1988 in Wisconsin, DROUGHT OMG did not see a single mosquito all summer, and when it is a wet spring there the skeeters are crazy bad.
This claimed record is a bit suspicious, firstly the GSOD data for the station in question has no data at all for 20/21 June 2020, and secondly a comparison with near neighbours shows that the period of heatwave temperatures may be a degree C or two too high:
Sweeping statements over a single day (Weather) doesn’t establish anything except for those who tries to generate a barrage of misleading claims and lies to support a politically derived narrative that we are in grave danger and only Planetary Saviors (politicians) can save us.
The whole power grab is transparent and absurd.
We need Mediterranean weather everywhere….that way, we won’t have to fly to Greece, Italy, Spain, Egypt……think of the savings….oh wait…it will damage their tourist economy…never mind.
Arctic ice maximum extent in millions of square kilometrs.Year, area, date.
2016…….. 14.52……..March 24
2017…….. 14.43……..March 7
2018…….. 14.48……..March 17
2019…….. 14.78……..March 3
2020…….. 15.05……..March 5…………………Giss claim hottest year ever.
2021…….. 14.77……..March 21
Source NSIDC.