Record-Swamping Heat In Siberia & Greenland Up To 25C Over Avg; Fires Rage As Central Europe Shivers

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Two girls cool off outside Nuuk this past week during a record-breaking heat wave in Greenland. On May 29 temperatures in the southern Greenland town of Narsarsuaq hit 24.8 C — the hottest temperature ever recorded in Greenland in May and close to breaking the highest temperature ever recorded in Greenland.

The previous record for May, a temperature of 22.4 C, was recorded May 31, 1991 in Kangerlussuaq. The heat comes as scientists say recording stations in the Arctic and Mongolia have registered levels of carbon dioxide, a gas that warms the atmosphere, which haven’t been as high for 800,000 years. Scientists quoted in reports say those levels are “an indication that we’re in a different world.” (PHOTO BY LEIFF JOSEFSEN, SERMITSIAQ AG)

https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674photo_arctic_heat_wave_unsettles_scientists/

While central and parts of southern and southeastern Europe are getting unseasonally cold weather, parts of northwest Russia will be baking hot this weekend. The contrast between temperature anomalies will be up to 30-35 °C, perhaps even more! Let us take a closer look.

A new outbreak of cold Arctic maritime airmass will push across central into southern and southeastern Europe this weekend and early next week. Temperature anomalies along the cold front and behind it will be up to 10-15 °C below average for this time, very cold indeed. Meanwhile, a strong ridge builds up over extreme NW Russia. Temperatures in this region will be up to 20-25 °C above average for this time.



In absolute terms, daytime highs in the mid to upper 20s are expected on Sunday (May 12th) as far north as parts of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, up to about 66° N, just below the Arctic circle! Meanwhile, daytime highs may plunge as low as only 7-8 °C across parts of Hungary, Croatia and the surroundings at about 46 °N. That is a ~20 °C difference across 20° in latitude, with the northern locations being warmer! But that is only the absolute temperature – the far northern locations would be a priori much colder than the southern ones. So the temperature anomaly needs to be considered: there will be a difference of 30-35 °C in temperature anomaly between the two!



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http://www.severe-weather.eu/mcd/extreme-temperature-anomaly-contrast-central-europe-vs-nw-russia/


Forty five forest fires are currently active around Irkutsk; twenty were extinguished overnight according to the local officials. Picture: Svodka38

Federal and local routes are disrupted, residents complain they fear getting burned alive while driving through the blazing taiga near to Lake Baikal.

Thousands of firefighters and volunteers are out in woodland in the Irkutsk and the Trans-Baikal regions of Eastern Siberia, desperately seeking to extinguish the infernos.

Russian Consumer rights watchdog RosPotrebNadzor issued a warning to the locals, calling on them to keep windows shut at all times, to wear damp masks and drink a lot of water.

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https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/black-skies-over-siberia-as-wildfires-rage-around-the-worlds-oldest-lake/?fbclid=IwAR1xZ8KZjTnuuZ-eE6qUab4kZBgnPeZ-Fn2smLqZQcS3cbHFIRh_KwZ03K0