“Temperature in the Russian Arctic Circle reached 30C yesterday.
The mercury in Nizhnyaya Pesha, in the far north, reached the temperature in the afternoon.
“Last month was the warmest May on record with global temperatures 0.63C above average, according to the European Union’s climate change monitor.”
https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/10/temperature-arctic-circle-reached-30c-yesterday-12830925/
“There were more melting permafrost problems for Russia’s energy infrastructure after the TGK1 power station on the Far Northwest coast reported on June 9 that two of its hydropower units were flooded with “abnormal water inflow” due to melting snow…
“The water levels [rose] rapidly to unseasonal highs after snow at the Lovozero lake melted – something which occurs once in 1,000 years, according to the company.”
“A massive fuel spill in northern Siberia has reached an Arctic glacial lake after seeping through floating barriers installed to stop the leak, regional officials said Tuesday…
““The fuel got into Lake Pyasino,” said Alexander Uss, the governor of the Krasnoyarsk region, referring to the Arctic body of water 20 kilometers from the site of the spill.”
“Swarms of the Siberian silk moth, whose larvae eat away at conifer trees in the region’s forests, have grown rapidly amid the rising temperatures…
“”In all my long career as a specialist, I’ve never seen moths so huge and growing so quickly,” said Vladimir Soldatov, a moth expert, who warns of “tragic consequences” for forests.”
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-climate-moths-siberia.html
“More residents in southeastern Manitoba were ordered to evacuate due to flooding and washed out roads late Tuesday evening.
“The Rural Municipality of Stuartburn said in a Facebook post that Arbakka residents living between roads 41E and 54E, south of Provincial Road 201, must leave their homes and farms.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-flooding-stuartburn-1.5604305
“Cristobal makes history as furthest NW a post-tropical storm has tracked in the US.
Until Cristobal, the furthest north was the 1949 unnamed hurricane, which moved over lake Michigan just north of Milwaukee.
“As of 10pm, Cristobal was centered over southwest Wisconsin and is expected to track towards the UP of Michigan.
“Until Cristobal, the furthest west was the Galveston hurricane…”
“Strong Santa Ana winds — weather that rarely occurs in June — sent temperatures soaring more than 20 degrees above normal Tuesday across San Diego County, smashing or tying records from the coast to the foothills.
““The numbers were amazing,” said Mark Moede, a forecaster at the National Weather Service.”
“In case 2020 wasn’t a strange enough year already, Tuesday marked the ninth day of the official Atlantic hurricane season, which began on June 1, and it is already shaping up to be one of the fastest-starting Atlantic seasons in history…
“Looking ahead, records for this already historic season may continue to be set with the name Dolly on deck.”
“Irish authorities have imposed a six-week garden-hose ban… Ireland’s weather office, Met Eireann, says the country experienced its driest May since 1850.
“Some areas had the driest spring ever recorded, with the capital, Dublin, receiving less than a third of its usual spring rainfall.”
“Record breaking May temperatures [UK] have led to the largest number of early butterfly sightings in a century…
“Dr Richard Fox, Associate Director of Recording and Research at the charity Butterfly Conservation, who compiled the figures, said that over the past 20 years he had typically received reports of 39 species by the end of May
“”…so 53 this year is “amazing”.”
“Flooding in south and central China has caused more than a dozen deaths and forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, the government said Wednesday.
“About 228,000 people have been forced to seek emergency shelter due to flooding since June 2, the country’s Ministry of Emergency Management said.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/hundreds-thousands-displaced-deadly-china-071459794.html
“Perth has recorded its warmest start to winter on record…
“but the balmy days are numbered with a storm system on Thursday marking the beginning of a cool and wet change.
“The city’s mean maximum temperature for the first 10 days of the month was 23.8 degrees Celsius, well above its June average of 19.5C.”
“Parts of South Australia turned white with frost overnight — and the surface of the River Torrens froze over — as Adelaide’s CBD shivered through its coldest morning in 76 years.
“The mercury dropped to 0.9 degrees Celsius at Adelaide’s central West Terrace weather station about 5:20am — the coldest temperature in the city since June 24, 1944.”
“Donald Trump has ordered the construction of a fleet of icebreakers and bases to pursue US interests in the Arctic and Antarctic by the end of the decade in a signal that his administration is going to take a more aggressive approach to the contest with Russia and China for polar resources.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/09/trump-icebreakers-bases-arctic-antarctic-polar
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