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.
Sorry, all unheard of high temperature records before 1925 shall remain unheard of.
Luckily, we have Tony Heller’s web site which always finds such records- which never show up in the MSM. This fact is what turned me against the climatistas. Living here in Taxachusetts I mostly only read the MSM- then only a few years ago a friend turned me onto WUWT and I later found Tony’s YouTube site and a similar one for “The Climate Discussion Nexus”. Both Tony’s and the CDN YouTube sites have been blocked by YouTube for short periods as a warning and some of their advertising has been shut off.
You can access the CDN website here.
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/
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“It is well worth subscribing to free the weekly newsletter.”
Even with the “Cure dyslexia for found” component, a more acerbic poster would agree with you.
“In a statement, the former president said: “Anybody that doesn’t think there wasn’t massive election fraud in the 2020 presidential election is either very stupid, or very corrupt!”
There are parts of Alaska that have rather mild temperatures due to a maritime climate, but Fort Yukon is not one of them. It is in the deep interior of Alaska, located just a few miles south of the Arctic Circle.
While living in Alaska, I learned not to vacation in the interior during summer; heat, humidity and mosquitos.
The original weather station was a degree inside.
a minute inside
nicholas tesdorf
” The highest recorded temperature in Alaska... ”
Did you notice that Mr Homewood is talking here about the Arctic?
Even if he himself seems to reduce the Arctic to the single Werchoyansk station, the Arctic still is much more than Alaska and a few stations in Northern Siberia.
A look at the top ten of the descending sort of a temperature list recorded by Arctic stations in the GHCN daily set (excluding Alaska) tells you this:
RSM00024606 1961 7 2 46.0 (°C)
RSM00024967 1996 7 10 45.6
RSM00023418 1989 7 20 43.1
RSM00023966 1976 6 8 39.9
RSM00023662 1994 6 24 39.7
CA002201022 2015 8 6 39.5
CA002202198 1941 7 18 39.4
RSM00025745 2001 7 31 39.3
RSM00022996 1973 7 5 39.0
RSM00023891 1963 7 18 38.9
And in position 27 (of… 11,649,523) you see
CA002204300 2021 6 27 38.1
This is a station in Canada’s New Territories
CA002204300 61.2500 -123.7500 204.0 NT YOHIN
with TMIN/TMAX data since 1957.
Thus we might well suppose that higher temperatures in the Arctic are not necessarily restricted to the good, ancient past 🙂
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The graphs shown by Mr Homewood are misleading because they are based on yearly maxima of daily TMAX measurements, and not on the temperatures themselves.
These yearly maxima/minima are useful when averaging over several stations (as shown by e.g. John Christy for an analysis of the complete USHCN set), but can lead to severe biases when restricted to single stations.
Here is a graph showing TMIN vs. TMAX for Werchoyansk:
Trends in °C / decade for
And here is the corresponding graph showing TMIN vs. TMAX for the entire Arctic:
Trends in °C / decade for
Interesting is here the fact that the TMIN trends are, for the whole Arctic latitude bands, not significantly higher than those for TMAX.
A DJF/JJA split might be interesting as well, but… it’s now 2 AM here.
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.
Life in a bubble. They should thank their lucky stars that other folks go outside and farm, ranch, log, mine, drill, truck, build, and generally make the bubble people’s hermetic lives liveable.
Literally life in a climate controlled bubble. People go from their climate-controlled homes to their climate-controlled worlplace to climate-controlled restaraunts and climate-controlled grocery stores. They only get outside the bubble while walking to and from their climate-controlled vehicles.
How different is this from my childhood? When I grew up, if you had air conditioning it was a window unit for the whole house. Only luxury vehicles had A/C and many places of business had no A/C, either. Kids played outside all day, come rain, shine, heat or cold.
A window? Luxury!
When I were a young un ……..
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118252.90
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What, do you think, does this list exactly mean?
Ok, I give up …
It was just a slightly sarcastic reply to
” People get easily scared by the idea that cold places can get warm when the sun is shining 24 hours a day. ”
Because these 24 hours a day don’t help you at higher latitudes, where sunshine power gets lowered by the cosine of its incidence angle.
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…
Mike, the average January temperature for Siberia is -25 deg C, and for Oymyakon commonly -60 deg C. If the winter temperature has increased by 4 deg C it isn’t nearly enough, unless you like frozen cookies.
Anyone who has experienced those conditions would know that 4 degrees does not constitute a noticeable difference.
It was around -50C there last night, the mother of all frost hollows.
“Sweltering” in a Siberian winter? Gimme a goddamned break! If only it were sweltering in a Siberian winter … maybe some people would actually voluntarily move there!
I’m guessing the key word is “voluntarily”?
Mike
can you provide the data you are getting these numbers from. I think you are off by just a bit.
bob boder
When I look at the data I generated for the graphs in the comment above
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/12/16/mediterranean-weather-in-the-arctic/#comment-3412716
I can only say that Mike Edwards is right, especially when you look at the entire Arctic since 1900.
To see that he is right, however, you can’t look at absolute data because when you sort it down, you always will obtain summer months on top.
Instead, you have to use anomalies (with removal of seasonal dependencies) whose sort will give those months on top which have the highest difference from the mean of all such months in the reference period.
If all 12 months were equally distributed, looking at the top 10 % of all months in the sort (144 months) should give about 25 % for each season (DJF, MAM, JJA, SON).
But… it looks different:
DJF 42 %; MAM: 22 %; JJA: 3 %; SON: 33 %.
97 % outside of the summer ḿonths… speaks for itself.
G’Day Mike and others,
“The big “climate change” story for Verkhoyansk is not the summer temperatures as discussed in the article, but rather the winter temperatures.”
http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/pole-of-cold-district-that-recently-recorded-desert-like-heat-of-38c-now-sees-snow/
Yes, the Siberian Times is in English. Verkhoyansk’s spread from maximum recorded high to minimum recorded low is something like 160°F. They claim that for a world record, but there’s another town in the same area that disputes their claim.
“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.
More likely they are ignorant and conditioned to not know that.
So why not inform them and see how eagerly they rush to amend their story?
Don’t hold your breath Ed. This is all intentional.
I think it’s their love of their careers which they won’t have if they sounded like WUWT fans.
By early 21st Century all Leftist media outlets had turned into official Deep State propaganda outlets (Pravda indeed). Leftist Big Tech have joined the front line for the Leftist governments’ war on peoples’ liberty. Watch and listen to the crescendo in the U.S. during 2022-24.
The Deep State and Leftist media had large targets in the Presidency of Donald Trump and the effects of the ChiCom virus. The massive propaganda and Democrat Party-controlled mail-in balloting worked for the 2020 Presidential Election. They didn’t work so well, however, in down-ballot voting, notwithstanding big city voting in the Georgia senatorial elections.
“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
There is a proliferation of automated weather stations in the North, so records are going to be broken simply by statistics alone. Plus most weather stations are at airports where there are issues with paved black surfaces, jet engine exhausts, air mixed from above 30 meters to ground level during high traffic hours….
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
We feel your pain.
You’ll no doubt be pleased those Laplanders and Siberians don’t have to fly to the Med for holidays then griff. Until the battery planes roll up I suppose?
There have been a string of record temperatures in the Antarctic, griff. Record cold temperatures.
“A Freezing Antarctic Winter Shatters Records”
A Freezing Antarctic Winter Shatters Records – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
It’s a game of two very different hemispheres.
And more lies spewed by the lie spewing liar. Bless your little heart, sweety.
So? 1 years unusually warm weather. If this carries on for 29 more years in the same region then we could consider it climate change, otherwise not. Remind me of this again in 2028 please Griffy – until then, give the bleating a rest.
The issue here is that changes at the site will lead to records rather than climate. This example is a record for a site that has shifted twice in the past 100 years. It’s warmed twice as fast as the globe, and that was greatest between 1900 and 1940, so nothing to do with emissions, possibly not even local climate.
Short lived high temperatures in that part of the world are not a sign of global warming™, they are natural, and often result from a Rossby wave pattern in the jet stream creating high pressure cells that are blocked around those higher latitudes. CO² is not doing this.
2020 was supposedly the warmest year on record for Europe, but Finland’s summer months temperature average of the year 1980 compared to 2020, doesn’t show much call for alarm.
However, as has been pointed out here many times, the climate misery /sarc, is found in winter.
…. so instead of ~-14°C it’s ~-10°C
Winter
It all depends on the jet stream orientation. If you are south of the jet stream, you have warm weather, and if you are north of the jet stream, you have cold weather.
Now show us how CO2 relates to the configuration of the jet stream.
It looks like the UK is south of the jet stream. Enjoying that mild weather? Setting any record highs? Enjoy it while it lasts. The next dip in the jet stream will be coming along soon. Then it will get cold in the UK.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/orthographic=-14.00,39.82,264/loc=-2.506,53.864
Look how big the high-pressure system is that is sitting over the UK (rotating clockwise), with the UK at the center, which is where the warmest temperatures will occur.
It’s always warmest at the center of a high-pressure system. That’s one way you can spot the center on a temperature chart: Just look for the hottest temperature.
High-pressure systems tend to becalm the air underneath them. That’s a large area of potential becalmed windmills, isn’t it.
It really is fascinating how things that have been happening for hundreds of thousands of years, are proof that this time it was caused by CO2.
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
Yes. I was in Greece one year just before Christmas when we had snow. People who only go on holiday in the summer tend not to realise just how cold it can get in winter.
There are ski resorts as far south as Peloponnesus
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.
well, yuh know, we gotta lock up half the planet
https://e360.yale.edu/features/protecting-earth-if-nature-needs-half-what-do-people-need
You too can live the life of fishermen in Ghana, if you listen to the nuts a Yale.
That article says but we must leave the Indigenous people as they are. I post many comments on that web site (as Mountain-man)- and I posted to that article- what happens when the Indigenous people decide to become modern with shopping centers, airports, factories, etc.?
So they’re knocking down half of Yale and rewilding it then?
good idea, I’ll go back to the site and recommend it!
The true Axis of Evil, China, Russia and the Ivy League.
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.
“If I were to use the BBC reasoning…”
A room with rubber wallpaper beckons….
Are you insinuating a lunatic asylum? I wonder if the it is the inmates who escaped who are running places like the BBC and many of our western governments?
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/
Anthony, thank you for showing the warming half of an approximately 70-year cooling and warming cycle. It is particularly evident at locations that show amplified Arctic cooling and warming.
Banton talking bollox as usual!
Have you ever been to Siberia or Ural?
Of course not!
I happen to live there, and can inform you, summers are sure NOT getting warmer, in fact we invented a new term in Russian for it.
“Green winter”,
cos apart from the odd hot days and apart from the exceptional heat wave of 2010, it’s been pretty awful wet and cold the last few summers.
Of course for 6 degrees north of us it’s normal in the mosquito ravaged summer months for it to be pretty torid warm because the bleedin’ sun never goes down for 24 hrs a day.
Come and spend your summer months in Murmansk and you will see what I mean….
Stoopid British islanders as usual, rabitting on about stuff they know SWEET FA about!
Then address the YT video.
The people interviewed damn well live there … and they dont agree.
And neither does the data.
No matter how you deny it.
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 said ‘this year’, but the data end in 2018. If reports are right, then summer 2021 has continued the warming summer trend, if not increased it.
ToeFungalNail,
As has been established many times, the average temp is slightly warmer mostly because of a slight warming in overnight temperatures – not so much in maximum daytime temps. This is a good thing and nothing to get your panties in a bunch over.
You need to stop trying to spread alarm because you’re not very good at it.
You may have noticed that I was quoting the author’s (mis)use of the term ‘average’. Or you may not have…
Other that the addition of the 1980-90s warming to the 1920-30s warming, what have you got? You have minimal to zero 21s Century warming, that’s what. We’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, fer Crist’s sake. Please gather a decade or so of additional data before you set out to destroy Western civilization.
“Other that the addition of the 1980-90s warming to the 1920-30s warming, what have you got? You have minimal to zero 21s Century warming…”
I’m using the data source provided by the author. It shows a rise in average summer temperatures at that location of +0.25C per decade since the 1950s; that’s over 1.7C warming in average summer temperatures in just 70 or so years. Hardly ‘minimal to zero’. Average summer temperatures are certainly a lot higher than they were a century ago, contrary to the author’s claim. Remember, his source, not mine.
0.25 of 1 degree C every 10 years?
So if I went outside to wash my car today, and it was say 15 degrees, that would be 0.25 of one degree warmer than it was when I washed my car back in 2011, ie 14.75C.
Well, that’s it then – the car stays dirty.
Much too hot to work at car washing now, hey FN?
Yes, a clear warming trend in average summer temperatures at that location, despite the author’s claim that there isn’t one. You’d imagine that people aspiring to be called skeptics would check claims like this, wouldn’t you? They seldom do though, not here anyway.
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:
Are you telling us that the record was set using no data? Out of which orifice did they pull such “data?”
There are only two periods over the entire summer with which one could use as baselines to homogenize June 20-21 Verhojansk up against the other two sites: June 24-25 and 27-28. Even then, one couldn’t get a 4 C hike in Verhojansk against the other two sites for June 20-21. All other dates in June and July have the other two sites’ temperatures at or above Verhojansk’s.
Are you sure there is no data measurements for Verhojansk on June 20 and 21? I don’t want to get worked up over nothing.
The GSOD data that I have (obtained via OGIMET, which gets it from NOAA) has no data for 20/21 June 2020, but it is a “derived product”, derived from “raw” data, which might be hourly temperature measurements, and with quality control operations that I’ve not been able to find a specification for. I’m guessing that 38C is somewhere in archived “raw” data, and that a quality control procedure did not put it into GSOD because it was “too high”.
Well, the June 20-21 data are certainly outliers compared to all other June and July measurements. Live by the algorithm, die by the algorithm. Although it appears that one just ignores the results of the algorithm if it doesn’t support the meme. CliSciFi heads I win, tails you lose.
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.
But it is working, ST, at least for now. The only solace I take is in Abraham Lincoln’s “… you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”
Indeed, the WMO expert panel is full of “big hitters”, they are trawling through archived datasets looking for these headline grabbing records, read all about it here:
https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/wmo-recognizes-new-arctic-temperature-record-of-38%E2%81%B0c
The WMO expert panel had to dream up a new category (Arctic area) to give it the new record. I note with amusement that the majority of WMO’s rainfall records occurred in the mid-20th Century. And Death Valley’s 1913 world temperature record still stands.
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.
What does Arctic sea ice extent – measured over a few years – have to do with the global average temperature – measured over a few years?
Why don’t you post a complete list since 1979?
Chris;
The usual one dimensional thinking from you it seems.
Vis:
All warming is caused by CO2.
All warming is evenly spread across the Earth’s surface at any one and all times.
No.
Arctic weather drives the melt season on top of the generally greater energy available in the climate system due AGW.
Hence natural variation in the depth of seasonal melt.