Global June temperatures match record as Arctic Siberia swelters and burns

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Arctic Siberia saw exceptionally high temperatures as global warmth matched last year’s record levels for June&comma; experts have said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Average temperatures in Arctic Siberia were as high as 10C above normal for June&comma; according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service &lpar;C3S&rpar; from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast &lpar;ECMWF&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A month of intense fires in the Arctic Circle have also been recorded by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service&comma; surpassing the record levels of fires seen in the region in June 2019&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Globally last month was on a par with 2019 for the hottest June on record&comma; with temperatures 0&period;53C above the 1981 to 2010 average&comma; and Europe saw its joint second warmest June on record&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Temperatures in Arctic Siberia were exceptionally warm&comma; C3S experts said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Average temperatures were as high as 10C above normal for the month in some places&comma; while across all land in the region&comma; temperatures averaged more than 5C higher than usual and more than 1C above 2018 and 2019 – the two previous warmest Junes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Regional variation saw western Siberia experience mainly below-average temperatures in June&comma; despite having a long period of warmer than usual temperatures stretching back to December&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In eastern Siberia&comma; C3S&comma; which uses satellite observations&comma; estimated a maximum hourly Arctic temperature of 37C on June 20&comma; in the area where a recording station reported a record temperature of 38C on the same day – although that has not yet been confirmed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Director of the C3S at ECMWF&comma; Carlo Buontempo&comma; said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Finding what caused these record temperatures is not a straightforward endeavour as there are many contributing factors interacting with each other&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Siberia and the Arctic Circle in general have large fluctuations from year to year and have experienced other relatively warm Junes before&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What is worrisome is that the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Western Siberia experiencing warmer-than-average temperatures so long during the winter and spring is unusual&comma; and the exceptionally high temperatures in Arctic Siberia that have occurred now in June 2020 are equally a cause for concern&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The higher temperatures and dry soils have contributed to increased fire activity&comma; mostly in the far north-east of Siberia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>59m tonnes Estimated amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in June<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Scientists from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service&comma; also implemented by ECMWF&comma; said the number and intensity of wildfires in parts of north-eastern Russia&comma; and to a lesser degree in Alaska and Canada’s Yukon Territory&comma; had been increasing since the second week in June&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The burning fires had resulted in the highest estimated emissions in 18 years of monitoring&comma; with an estimated 59 million tonnes of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in June&comma; more than last June’s total of 53 million tonnes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Experts at the UK Met Office said the high temperatures in northern Eurasia were due to a combination of climate change and extreme climate variability&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads3--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A climate phenomenon known as the Indian Ocean dipole&comma; with different sea surface temperatures in different parts of the ocean&comma; saw record extremes in the autumn&comma; helping create the conditions to push up temperatures in the region in winter and into spring&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Climate change is also melting the sea ice&comma; creating areas where heat from the sun is absorbed by the dark ocean water rather than being reflected by ice and snow&comma; amplifying the warmth in the Arctic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e21c0150966">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; 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