Record hot mass hits frigid Siberian coast, fears of rapid ice melt

2021-06-05 8:02 AM
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Record hot mass hits frigid Siberian coast, fears of rapid ice melt

Weather of Arabia - Siberia and the whole of northeastern Russia are exposed today, Saturday, 5/6/2021, to a record heat wave caused by a rush of hot and dry air mass from the Chinese Gobi Desert and the plains of Mongolia directly towards Siberia and the Arctic, where temperatures rose to record levels for this time of the year. In such areas.

 

Thirty degrees temperatures in Siberia and its coasts

 

A meteorological station in the city of Sogo Haya, in eastern Siberia, recorded a temperature of 35 degrees Celsius, which is more than 20 degrees Celsius higher than its monthly average, and this city is known to record temperatures below minus 50 degrees Celsius in winter.

 

On the other hand, scientists fear that this hot air mass will cause millions of tons of ice, whether from Siberian lands or from the ice of the Arctic Ocean, to melt in record time due to the huge rise in temperatures.

 

Read more about the record heat wave hitting Siberia

 

The latest weather forecasts indicate that this hot air mass will move directly towards the center of the North Pole in the middle of this week, but with lower temperatures than recorded in Siberia, as it will increase the warming of the inflamed Arctic mainly due to global warming.

 

It should be noted that many Arab capitals such as Amman, Beirut, Jerusalem, Rabat and Algeria are experiencing colder weather than the coasts overlooking the Arctic Ocean in eastern Siberia.

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.
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