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2020 heat record in Siberian town

  • December 16, 2021
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2020 heat record in Siberian town

Subject – Environment

Context – WMO confirms 2020 heat record in Siberian town

Concept –

  • Verkhoyansk, a town in Siberia, recorded a temperature of 38 degrees Celsius on June 20, 2020. It was then pushed as the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic region.
  • The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has now confirmed that the Siberian town, 115 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, did experience the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic region.
  • The Arctic region is warming at more than twice the rate as the rest of the world, mainly because of human-made greenhouse gas emissions. The increased rate of warming is because of a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification, wherein the melting ice hastens the process of warming by exposing areas that are not good at reflecting back heat into the atmosphere.
  • The impact of warming on the region is such that the WMO has added a new category — “highest recorded temperature at or north of 66.5⁰C, the Arctic Circle” — to its international Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes.

Siberia

  • Is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
  • It has been a part of Russia since the latter half of the 16th century, after the Russians conquered lands east of the Ural Mountains.
  • Siberia is vast and sparsely populated.
  • The river Yenisey divides Siberia into two parts, Western and Eastern.
  • Siberia stretches southwards from the Arctic Ocean to the hills of north-central Kazakhstan and to the northern parts of Mongolia and China.
  • Siberia is known worldwide primarily for its long, harsh winters, with a January average of −25 °C.
  • It is geographically situated in Asia; however, due to it being colonized and incorporated into Russia, it is culturally and politically a part of Europe.

International Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes

  • The WMO Archive maintains official records of the world, hemispheric and regional extremes associated with a number of specific types of weather.
  • Presently, the Archive lists extremes for temperature, pressure, rainfall, hail, wind, and lightning as well as two specific types of storms, tornadoes and tropical cyclones.
  • One common weather variable, snowfall, is not listed because of potential issues in consistent official measurement around the world.
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