Unprecedented heat in Siberia pushed planet to warmest June on record, tied with last year

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Triple-digit heat infiltrated the Arctic Circle.

An analysis of land surface temperature anomalies during June. By Matthew Cappucci Matthew Cappucci Meteorologist, Capital Weather Gang Email Bio Follow July 7 at 2:17 PM June 2020 tied for the planet’s warmest on record, closely matching the anomalously toasty temperatures observed globally during June last year. But one region in particular saw heat virtually off the charts — Siberia.

Triple-digit heat even occurred in Siberia during June, the town of Verkhoyansk cresting at 100.4 degrees on the afternoon of June 20. The World Meteorological Organization has preliminarily accepted the reading as legitimate, marking the hottest temperature ever observed in the Arctic.A look at the progression of Siberia's temperature anomalies over time.

That’s also triggering the same positive feedback mechanism on land, by melting Siberia’s snowpack and even thawing its previously untouched permafrost. “Higher temperatures and drier surface conditions are providing ideal conditions for these fires to burn and to persist for so long over such a large area,” Copernicus senior scientist Mark Parrington said in a news release.

[The Arctic may have crossed key threshold, emitting billions of tons of carbon into the air, in a long-dreaded climate feedback]

 

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