Has Verkhoïansk, a city accustomed to extreme temperatures, record warmth was recorded Saturday.
A heat record was recorded in a town in Siberia. A spike of heat at 38°C was raised to Verkhoïansk last Saturday, located at 4600 km north-east of Moscow, and 67° of north latitude, reports Le Parisien. Never before such low temperatures were not observed, beyond the polar circle, according to Pogoda i Klimat, a site that compiles meteorological data from the Russian.
A record disturbing, which could have serious impacts on fires in the region. In total, from January to mid-may, the fires have already ravaged a total of 4.8 million hectares in Siberia, of which 1.1 million of boreal forests, according to Greenpeace.
“80 years”
If the city of Verkhoïansk is recognized for its extreme temperatures, and even included in the Guinness World Records with a minimum of 68 °C and a maximum of 37.2 °C, reminds us of The World, the average Verkhoïansk at this time of the year is around 20 °C, according to The Weather Channel.
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“What’s happening in Siberia this year is simply remarkable,” says the meteorologist of CBS, Jeff Berardelli, on Twitter. He explains that this kind of phenomenon was expected around the year 2100, “it was therefore 80 years ahead”. It can be explained by the “establishment of a dome of hot high pressure at altitude,” says Gaétan Heymes, engineer at Meteo France.
“After the heat wave exceptional in eastern Siberia (38°C to Verkhoïansk, an absolute record in the north of the polar circle), it is in Scandinavia he is going to be exceptionally hot this week, especially between Wednesday and Friday”, he warns.
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