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The town is Verhoyansk for those who don't want to click a forbes article. I feel this is clickbait (at least the title). Continental climates fluctuate a lot.

The town is Verhoyansk for those who don't want to click a forbes article. I feel this is clickbait (at least the title). Continental climates fluctuate a lot. One day breaking a record could simple be a statistical outlier. A poke around the records does show that the entirety of June so far has been well above average, and that this is not normal. But I guess "global warming slowly driving more extreme high temperatures in artic siberia" doesn't get as many clicks. June 2020 weather records for Verhoyansk: http://www.pogodaiklimat.ru/monitor.php?id=24266&month=06&year=2020 http://www.pogodaiklimat.ru/monitor.php?id=24266&month=06&ye...

mratsim 6y ago
It has trends for the past 40 years > It is well known that the poles warm faster as a result of climate change. For example, the average increase in temperature on Earth over the past 40 years is 1.44°F. In comparison, the Arctic has warmed by more than 3.5°F during the same period, more than double the global average.
- ImaCake 6y ago
  I wonder if there is some connection between variance in temperature extremes and average warming? I feel it could either be due to the same underlying cause or because larger variance will mean the average warming will appear larger. I suspect the former (i.e. it really is warming faster in the poles). I guess one could think of Siberia as a canary in the coal mine for global warming. Not that we should need one.
PoachedSausage 6y ago
I wonder if there are some effects from the reduced pollution over the last few months of lockdown. We have had some unusual weather in the UK, like the sunniest spring on record.
- qayxc 6y ago
  Probably not. It's a very common mistake to confuse local phenomena (i.e. "weather") with global patterns (i.e. "climate"). My area saw the hottest and driest spring ever recorded last year, but this year we had some rain and temperatures were modest (despite still being above average overall).

mratsim 6y ago

It has trends for the past 40 years > It is well known that the poles warm faster as a result of climate change. For example, the average increase in temperature on Earth over the past 40 years is 1.44°F. In comparison, the Arctic has warmed by more than 3.5°F during the same period, more than double the global average.

ImaCake 6y ago
I wonder if there is some connection between variance in temperature extremes and average warming? I feel it could either be due to the same underlying cause or because larger variance will mean the average warming will appear larger. I suspect the former (i.e. it really is warming faster in the poles). I guess one could think of Siberia as a canary in the coal mine for global warming. Not that we should need one.

PoachedSausage 6y ago

I wonder if there are some effects from the reduced pollution over the last few months of lockdown. We have had some unusual weather in the UK, like the sunniest spring on record.

qayxc 6y ago
Probably not. It's a very common mistake to confuse local phenomena (i.e. "weather") with global patterns (i.e. "climate"). My area saw the hottest and driest spring ever recorded last year, but this year we had some rain and temperatures were modest (despite still being above average overall).