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Meteorological experts say the air temperature in the region has been above the 3 to 6 degree average since January. This trend was already observed in 2019, when experts named the summer of that year as the hottest in Russia.
“It is not just a new record anomaly for Russia.” This is the largest anomaly in the January-April period that has been recorded in the context of all countries, “said Robert Rohde, spokesman for the non-profit organization for climate change research Berkeley Earth on Twitter.
Russia’s third-largest city, Novosibirsk, in the Krasnoyarsk region and neighboring mountainous regions of Omsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo and Altai, is under the heat of an average of 30 to 35 degrees Celsius in May, the Siberian reported Tuesday. Times.
At least one Siberian city on the Arctic Circle, Chatanga, on May 23 improved the record for the hottest day in May by up to 12 degrees, here the weather warms up to 25.4 degrees.
“This heat was recorded in an area where it was abnormally hot throughout 2020,” Finnish researcher Mika Rantanen told the Washington Post.
The temperature map released by Rantanen on Thursday makes it clear that in some areas of Siberia, the thermometer bar rises above 20 or even above 30 degrees.
“I was born in Siberia, I lived there for 60 years, but I don’t remember a spring like this. There was no spring, no one-week warm-up periods. Just in late April, someone started and turned on the hot air, an unexpected summer began and unplanned, “says local journalist Sergejus Zubčiukas.
The heat wave interrupted even several cycles of nature, writes The Siberian Times, including rippling river ice, flowering plants and trees, and insects also wake up earlier than usual.
The heat in Siberia also affects Arctic ecosystems, according to The Washington Post, including Siberian wildfires that started before each year, declining snow cover, and low levels of sea ice.
Climate change in Russia is manifesting global warming twice as fast as the world average, leading to the melting of the arctic tundra frost, the Russian Ministry of Environment warned last year.
Russia, the world’s fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is in no rush to reduce its carbon footprint.
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