Siberian heatwave: Wildfires rage in Arctic, sea ice melts

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Associated Press•July 24, 2020


The U.N. weather agency warned Friday that average temperatures in Siberia were 10 degrees Celsius (18 Fahrenheit) above average last month, a spate of exceptional heat that has fanned devastating fires in the Arctic Circle and contributed to a rapid depletion in ice sea off Russia's Arctic coast.

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He noted that Earth's poles influence weather conditions far away, where hundreds of millions of people live.

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The agency says the extended heat is linked to a large “blocking pressure system” and northward swing of the jet stream that has injected warm air into the region. But WMO also pointed to a recent study by top climate scientists who found that such a rise in heat would have been nearly impossible without human-caused climate change.

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tags: extreme weather, severe weather