“Nome [Alaska] residents have experienced the warmest May in the city’s climate history… (The) average temperature for the month of May was 45.7° (Fahrenheit) and that is almost 9° above the 30-year normal.”
“Rick Thoman is a climatologist with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP). According to Thoman, the prior May record for Nome was set in May of 1983 with an average temperature of about 42.8°…
“In 2019 Nome had its warmest March on record, earlier this year the most rainfall for April, and now the warmest May…”
“Arctic coastal watersheds are some of the most threatened regions on Earth, having undergone substantial climatic, physical and biological changes with the warming of the Earth, scientists have found…
“Previously calculated carbon budgets for the Arctic region often didn’t include measurements from small waterbodies and therefore underestimated the amount of carbon entering the atmosphere.”
https://www.miragenews.com/small-arctic-coastal-waterbodies-with-big-carbon-release/
“A flood in the Murmansk region damaged a railway bridge across the Kola River in northwestern Russia…
“One of the railway bridge’s five pillars collapsed on May 30. The supporting pillar was washed away by the Kola River, which overflowed its banks due to a drastic melting of snow-cover.”
“Russia’s Federal Forestry Agency has identified 12.3 million acres of wildfires raging across the country’s forests so far this year, four-fifths of which are in Siberia and the Russian Far East.
“Experts warn that this year’s blazes, some of which may have survived from last summer through a historically warm and dry winter, could become the most destructive in history.”
“Wildfires and blazes lit by humans have been found to be sending huge amounts of carbon into our oceans via rivers each year.
“When trees and other vegetation are incompletely burned, they form black carbon, which can last for centuries on land and even longer in oceans.”
“Water levels in Ukraine’s rivers and reservoirs are the lowest they have ever been since records began to be kept in 1885, threatening the health and well-being of Ukrainians and the incomes of Ukrainian industry and the government, and exacerbating tensions with Russia over water supplies for occupied Crimea…”
“Moldova’s wheat harvest is likely to fall to about 600,000 tonnes this year from 1.1 million in 2019, hit by severe drought, news agencies quoted Moldovan agriculture ministry data as showing.
“Moldova consumes about 350,000 tonnes of wheat each season, exporting the rest.”
https://www.agriculture.com/markets/newswire/drought-to-cut-moldova-wheat-crop-by-45
“The European Union expects dry weather to cause unusually widespread wildfires in Europe over the coming months, including in the central and northern regions that tend to be less at risk, the EU’s crisis management commissioner said on Tuesday.
“The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, expects the situation will get much worse over Europe’s summer.”
“It has never been so dry so early in the year in Denmark this century, according to the DMI’s drought index. The index yesterday reached its maximum level of 10.0 as temperatures exceeded 25 degrees for the first time in 2020, the denotation of a summer’s day in Denmark.”
“May was the U.K’s driest month in 124 years, and this spring was its sunniest on record.
“That came as welcome relief to millions of people locked down at home to slow the spread of Covid-19. It also helped create new records for the amount of renewable energy in the British electricity mix. But as a sign of what the future might hold, it’s not great.”
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/britain-s-record-sunshine-offers-a-glimpse-into-a-dry-future
“Dave Throup, Environment Agency manager for Herefordshire and Worcestershire, said: “It’s hard to believe that three months after the highest levels recorded (higher than 2007); and severe flooding on the upper Teme, parts of the river are now dry.
“”We were rescuing stranded fish yesterday. Crazy days.””
https://www.malverngazette.co.uk/news/18492199.crazy—record-floods-now-rescuing-fish-dry-river-beds/
“The official start of summer may still be several weeks away, but Chicago is already smashing records for high temperatures.
“On Tuesday, O’Hare International Airport reported that the temperature hit 94 degrees, giving the city its new record for warmest June 2 in history.”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/weather/chicago-sets-new-record-high-temperature-tuesday/2283104/
“One thing is relatively clear, more rain seems to be becoming our new spring reality.
“According to the National Weather Service, for the past three years, the month of May has set precipitation records in Northern Illinois.”
https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story/record-rainfall-in-the-spring
“Tropical Storm Cristobal formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday…
“The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Cristobal was now expected to dip inland along the Mexican coast near the low-lying, flood-prone city of Ciudad del Carmen and meander there for a couple of days [sounds like Harvey]. That could pump a huge amount of water into coastal lagoons behind the city.”
https://www.wbtv.com/2020/06/02/depression-forms-gulf-heavy-rain-threat-south-mexico/
“Cyclone Nisarga, which intensified into a severe cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea, is making landfall along India’s western coast, forcing a high alert in the financial hub of Mumbai and evacuation of tens of thousands of people…
“The storm surge threatened to flood beaches and low-lying slums as city authorities struggle to contain the pandemic.”
“At least 20 people died on Tuesday due to landslides in India’s northeastern Assam state, officials said.
“The deaths have been reported from the Barak valley region. The region witnessed incessant rainfall in the last few days causing flooding.”
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/landslide-in-northeastern-india-kills-20-people-/1862253
“Airlines, airports and insurers across Asia are bracing for the prospect of unusually high damage as the region’s tropical storm season begins, as hundreds of aircraft grounded by the coronavirus pandemic can’t be moved easily.
“Major airports in storm-vulnerable regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and India have been effectively turned into giant parking lots as COVID-19 travel restrictions choke demand.”
“The Pixaim Quilombo is one of many traditional communities made up mostly of Afro-Brazilian descendants of runaway slaves… Once a thriving community, it has been struggling for decades due to the impacts of upriver dams…
“Now, climate change threatens to make those struggles even greater, further changing fish populations, reducing river flow even more, and dangerously elevating the salinity of the stream as seawater intrudes.”
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