The United Nations, through the World Meteorological Organization, have approved a new record for the maximum temperature recorded in the Arctic area, precisely in Siberia.

The record is 38 degrees Celsius, the limit reached by the detection instruments in the city

in Verkhoyansk during an exceptional and prolonged Siberian heatwave.

But, as you can guess, this record is unfortunately not good news. "This new Arctic record is part of a series of observations communicated to the WMO Archive of Extreme Weather and Climate Conditions that represent a wake-up call for our changing climate," the head of the agency said in a statement. of the United Nations, Petteri Taalas.

During the exceptional heat wave caused by global warming, average temperatures in Arctic Siberia remained 10 degrees Celsius above normal for much of the summer.

last year, fueling devastating fires and causing massive ice loss in one of the three hottest years on record.

Precisely the Arctic, recalls the World Meteorological Organization, is among the regions that are warming up the fastest in the world, at a rate more than double the global average.

The UN meteorological agency is now working on the homologation of two other primates, also closely related to global warming: temperatures of 54.4 degrees Celsius

recorded in 2020 and 2021 in the hottest place on Earth, Death Valley in California, and the European record of 48.8 degrees reported last summer in Sicily.

(Unioneonline / lf)

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