Wikipedia has additional interesting info on Yakutsk: I tried to find out if the melting of arctic glaciers has had an impact on the winter temperatures of Yakutsk. I didn't see anything...
Wikipedia has additional interesting info on Yakutsk:
Average monthly temperatures in Yakutsk range from +19.9 °C (67.8 °F) in July to −37.0 °C (−34.6 °F) in December.
Although winters are extremely cold and long - Yakutsk has never recorded a temperature above freezing between 10 November and 14 March inclusive – summers are sunny, warm and occasionally hot (though short), with daily maximum temperatures exceeding +30 °C (86 °F), making the seasonal temperature differences for the region the greatest in the world at 102 °C (184 °F).
The lowest temperature recorded in Yakutsk was −64.4 °C (−83.9 °F) on 5 February 1891 and the highest temperatures +38.4 °C (101.1 °F) on 17 July 2011 and +38.3 °C (100.9 °F) on 15 July 1942.
The hottest month in records going back to 1834 has been July 1894, with a mean of +23.2 °C (73.8 °F), and the coldest, January 1900, which averaged −51.4 °C (−60.5 °F).
I tried to find out if the melting of arctic glaciers has had an impact on the winter temperatures of Yakutsk. I didn't see anything definitive on that, but my search wasn't very comprehensive. This 2021 BBC article talks about extreme winters globally (e.g. Texas) caused by changes in the polar vortex winds. Not sure about Yakutsk temperature change, but at least there has been increased snowfall:
The authors show that the melting of ice in the Barents and Kara seas leads to increased snowfall over Siberia and a transfer of excess energy that impacts the swirling winds in the stratosphere above the North Pole.
Hey, I lived there when I was little. Fun to see it in the news, doing what it does best. Fun fact: For the central months of Siberian winter, it gets too cold to snow. Instead, all the moisture...
Hey, I lived there when I was little. Fun to see it in the news, doing what it does best.
Fun fact: For the central months of Siberian winter, it gets too cold to snow. Instead, all the moisture crystallizes on every exposed surface. It's called hoarfrost; on trees it can be quite beautiful.
Wikipedia has additional interesting info on Yakutsk:
I tried to find out if the melting of arctic glaciers has had an impact on the winter temperatures of Yakutsk. I didn't see anything definitive on that, but my search wasn't very comprehensive. This 2021 BBC article talks about extreme winters globally (e.g. Texas) caused by changes in the polar vortex winds. Not sure about Yakutsk temperature change, but at least there has been increased snowfall:
Wow! I didn't realise that it got that warm in summer.
Hey, I lived there when I was little. Fun to see it in the news, doing what it does best.
Fun fact: For the central months of Siberian winter, it gets too cold to snow. Instead, all the moisture crystallizes on every exposed surface. It's called hoarfrost; on trees it can be quite beautiful.