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On the summer solstice ( June 20 — the long day of the yr ) two European Union satellites register a scorching temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit ( 48 degrees Celsius ) on the ground in Arctic Siberia .
This is n’t quite a raw heat record ; as a Emily Price Post on theEU ’s Copernicus satellite websitenoted , this egg - boiling temperature was detected only on the ground in Siberia ’s Sakha Republic , while the part ’s air temperature ( the temperature the great unwashed would in reality find while walking around ) was a toasty 86 F ( 30 degree Celsius ) .
Land temperatures in Siberia exceeded 118 degrees Fahrenheit on the first day of summer.
However , that ’s still an anomalously high temperature for the Arctic Circle — and one that could exacerbate the realm ’s melting permafrost , which is the only affair foreclose ancient caches ofgreenhouse gasesfrom reenteringEarth ’s ambience , according to Gizmodo .
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The EU ’s Copernicus Sentinal-3A and 3B satellites recorded the high temperature in the midst of an on-going heat waving over much of Siberia . The heat spike is , alas , a predictable start to summer , succeed a spring that sawhundreds of wildfiresscorching the Siberian countryside and blacking out major urban center with blankets of weed .
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Many of these saltation fires were " zombie fires , " so named because they are think to be the rekindled cadaver of wildfires that ignited the old summer and were never fully extinguished . The zombi fires smoulder for months under wintertime ice and snow , fed by the carbon - rich peat below the surface . When the spring melt arrived , the erstwhile fires blaze anew , Live Science previously report .
If last summertime is any indication , the hot solstice temperature are just the beginning . Precisely one year ago , on June 20 , 2020 , the same region of Siberia recorded the first 100 F ( 38 C ) day above the Arctic Circle — thehottest temperature ever recordedthere . The sweltering day in Siberia fit into a larger mood change vogue . For long time , intermediate temperatures in the Arctic have been go up at afar faster ratethan anywhere else on Earth , for the most part due to dethaw ocean ice rink induced by human beings - madeglobal thawing .
Originally published on Live Science .
