Siberia hits 118 degrees!!

[True Dough]

Yikes!!!


It's not just the Western region of the US that's sweltering right now. Siberia in Russia is baking, and satellites are bearing witness to a brutal heat wave above the Arctic Circle. Copernicus Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B satellites captured a snapshot of land surface temperatures on June 20, and it was hot.

According to NASA, "Land surface temperature is how hot the 'surface' of the Earth would feel to the touch in a particular location." The Sentinel image shows a peak ground temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius) near Verkhojansk, a small town usually known for its extreme cold temperatures.

The World Meteorological Organization has been tracking the rise in temperatures around the world. "The most dramatic change is in the Arctic, which is warming more than twice as fast as the global average," the agency said Monday in a statement aimed at raising awareness of the urgency to act on the climate crisis.

https://www.cnet.com/news/surface-temperatures-in-siberia-heat-up-to-a-mind-boggling-118-degrees/

[Goonch]

1. It's 118 degrees in the Arctic, which sure seems bad

[Hortensis]

22. !, for sure. Fwiw, it was 118 degrees peak ground temperature, not air.

[trusty elf]

2. We are so f*cked. nt

[Jim__]

3. Just a note: ground temperatures tend to be more extreme than air temperatures.

It's definitely hot, but we should be aware that 118 degrees is not the air temperature which is what usually gets reported.

From Geography

In contrast to surface temperature is air temperature, which is measured at a standard height of 1.2 m (4.0 ft) above the ground surface. Air temperature can be quite different from surface temperature. When you walk across a parking lot on a clear summer day, you will notice that the pavement is a lot hotter than the air against the upper part of your body. In general, air temperatures above a surface reflect the same trends as ground surface temperatures, but ground temperatures are likely to be more extreme.

[Ligyron]

11. But don't those ground temperatures occur over permafrost

I mean, we’re talking about Sub Artic here.

More melt water isn’t helpful even if we find a few Ice Age mammals.

[Act_of_Reparation]

14. Yeah, but when we're talking about pockets of hydrocarbons sealed beneath permafrost...

...high surface temperature is pretty damned concerning.

[ancianita]

25. And methane, the largest pocket on Earth located on the floor of the Leptev Sea in the Arctic Ocean.

[Dukkha]

4. fiddling while the world burns

Another reminder to the anti-science dunces: denialism is not skepticism. You do not possess a divine knowledge that 97% of the science community is somehow not aware of.

[malaise]

5. I heard last night that the Pacific North West will break all temperature records this

weekend.
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/06/23/oregon-washington-weather-high-temperatures/

An “excessive heat watch” starts either Friday or Saturday depending on which part of the Pacific Northwest you live in and continues through Monday. The region will see high temperatures 20 to 30 degrees above normal at many locations, putting numerous daily, monthly and possible all-time high-temperature records in jeopardy.

In the Portland-Vancouver metro area and the Columbia River Gorge, high temperatures up to 108 degrees are possible, according to the National Weather Service.

[MFM008]

6. Yes

Today was our last nice day.
We have 104 for 2 days
Possibly.
No central air conditioner.
Im a nervous wreck.

[malaise]

8. Wow!

Our planet is getting hotter

[Magoo48]

23. It's exasperating,

While all Republicans, as well as many of our Dems, fiddle-fuck around—our nation and our world are cementing in place an untenable future for our next generations. In essence, what we continue to say by our collective inaction on Climate Emergency is, “you all need to adapt. We love our status quo more than you. You are correct, malaise, the West is cooking.

[Magoo48]

24. It's exasperating,

While all Republicans, as well as many of our Dems, fiddle-fuck around—our nation and our world are cementing in place an untenable future for our next generations. In essence, what we continue to say by our collective inaction on Climate Emergency is, “you all need to adapt. We love our status quo more than you. You are correct, malaise, the West is cooking.

[Klaralven]

7. It's about 1 degree north of the Arctic Circle, so 24 hours of sunlight

No night time, although the sun is pretty low in the North at midnight before it swings around to the East by mid-morning and the South at noon.

[bronxiteforever]

9. An article about 2020's heat wave in Siberia

“We have demonstrated the role of anthropogenically driven temperature changes in the recent period of prolonged Siberian heat that was exceptional at both the local and wider regional scales, bringing record-breaking 6-month and daily maximum temperatures that were virtually impossible in the pre-industrial climate. Furthermore, the natural environment and human infrastructure of the region is almost uniquely vulnerable to warming and is the source of hazards to local populations as well as to the global environment. The demonstrable anthropogenic role in these events presents us with a stark warning of the impacts of human influence on climate that are hard to ignore.”

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-021-03052-w

[onethatcares]

10. oh well,

we've managed to mess this planet up pretty nicely.

Don't forget to buy a bunch of fireworks next week .

I'm at a loss for words as the planet burns and the oceans become trash pits,

[2naSalit]

12. I can see that...

Many of the fisheries around here will have to shut down before the end of July. If the water is too hot, they have to ban fishing, and we are over-run with fly fishing tourists these days.

[Act_of_Reparation]

13. So long, and thanks for all the fish!

[jaxexpat]

19. Spot on!

[Duppers]

15. And yet there are still deniers!! 😠

NYT has an article this morning:

Climate change [Global Warming] has plunged the Western U.S. into its worst drought in two decades. And a record-breaking heat wave only made things worse.

In Arizona and Nevada, it’s been so hot that doctors warned people they could get third-degree burns from the asphalt. Wildfires raged in Montana and Utah. Power grids in Texas strained as officials asked residents to limit appliance use to avoid blackouts.

More...

In Australia, Griffith said, a kilowatt-hour of energy generated by rooftop solar panels costs about a third of what it would from a U.S. power grid.

“We can make everyone’s energy future cheaper, but politics has to work with technology, which has to work with finance,” he said.

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Why do solar panels cost so much more in the U.S.?

[twodogsbarking]

16. Florida?

Ba bye.

[SheilaAnn]

18. It's 74 degrees in Florida right now and quite nice thank you very much...LOL. n/t

[jaxexpat]

21. I'm a blistering 76, myself.

Being between two oceans has an ameliorating effect, I think. A perfect, warm, moist blanket with the occasional tropical disaster.

[SheilaAnn]

27. Hahaha, very true. I'm on the east coast and only worry about the east. n/t

[SheilaAnn]

29. Wow, you're a real genius and snarky at the same time. n/t

[twodogsbarking]

30. Your words.

[hlthe2b]

32. You state that you only care about the East coast and then call out someone else?

Incredible.

[Beastly Boy]

17. Damn, I was just about to buy a nice retirement condo in Siberia, but now

I am rethinking the whole idea. I don't like hot summers. Anyone selling land in Antarctica?

[spike jones]

20. The Ice Caps are Melting- Tiny Tim

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[ancianita]

26. The forces of Earth from Miami to the Arctic, squashing teh political fights in DC to nothing.

The forces of Earth being used as "look over there!" distractions while puny fascist humans rake in hoarded wealth from Earth and its inhabitants.

For unconscious grasshoppers it's future descendants be damned.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

31. That's ground temp, not air temp.

I'm still surprised by it, though! Maybe 80+ F air temps there!

[Poiuyt]

33. Yes, but it's a dry heat

Actually, I have no idea. 118 is hot no matter what.