Major Siberian heatwave, this person has documented it well ... https://twitter.com/chriscartw83/status ... 1786513408
Siberia is already well alight with wildfires as summer approaches.
Extreme weather
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Fatal 'wet bulb' temperatures arrive far earlier than expected ...
Quote from study linked below: "Our findings indicate that reported occurrences of extreme TW have increased rapidly at weather stations and in reanalysis data over the last four decades and that parts of the subtropics are very close to the 35°C survivability limit, which has likely already been reached over both sea and land. These trends highlight the magnitude of the changes that have taken place as a result of the global warming to date."
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content ... 8.full.pdf
Quote from study linked below: "Our findings indicate that reported occurrences of extreme TW have increased rapidly at weather stations and in reanalysis data over the last four decades and that parts of the subtropics are very close to the 35°C survivability limit, which has likely already been reached over both sea and land. These trends highlight the magnitude of the changes that have taken place as a result of the global warming to date."
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content ... 8.full.pdf
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A regularly updated list of global heat records ... http://www.mherrera.org/temp.htm
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Berkeley Earth April 2020 update ... https://berkeleyearth.org/april-2020-te ... re-update/
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Reminder of the severe European heatwave records of July 2019 ...
France: 46.0C in Vérargues
Belgium: 41.8C in Begijnendijk
Germany: 42.6C in Lingen
Luxembourg: 40.8C in Steinsel
Netherlands: 40.7C in Gilze en Rijen
United Kingdom: 38.7C in Cambridge
France: 46.0C in Vérargues
Belgium: 41.8C in Begijnendijk
Germany: 42.6C in Lingen
Luxembourg: 40.8C in Steinsel
Netherlands: 40.7C in Gilze en Rijen
United Kingdom: 38.7C in Cambridge
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Antarctica reminder ... heat record was broken with 18.3C at the Esperanza Base on February 6, 2020.
This beat the previous record of 17.5C in March 2015.
This beat the previous record of 17.5C in March 2015.
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More Russian eye-openers ... temperature hit 10.1°С in Sterlegov, beating the previous record of May 2011, 6.8C.
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Arctic records its hottest ever temperature at 38C (100.4F) ... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arctic-rec ... 020-06-20/
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2020 to be hottest year yet recorded ... https://www.statista.com/chart/19048/gl ... ivergence/