Newly confirmed Arctic records indicate that 100 degrees of heat in Siberia is causing a “warning bell” for climate change, the United Nations said.

On Tuesday, the United Nations officially recognized the 38 degrees Celsius measured in Siberia last year as the highest record in the Arctic Circle and rang an “alarm bell.” Climate change..

On June 20, 2020, the town of Verkhoyansk, Russia, saw an intense heat equivalent to 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Highest temperatures ever recorded over the Arctic Circle, The World Meteorological Organization said.

This is the first time the WMO has put record heat on the archive of Arctic extreme weather reports, according to UN agencies, and is in the midst of an unprecedented wave of global record temperature spikes. ..

“This new Arctic record is one of a series of observations reported in the WMO’s weather and climate extreme archive, alerting us to climate change,” said its chief, Petteri Taaras. Said in a statement.

Verkhoyansk is about 70 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where temperatures have been measured since 1885.

The temperature, which the agency noted as “more suitable for the Mediterranean than the Arctic,” was measured at a meteorological station during a very protracted Siberian heat wave.

According to the WMO, average temperatures across Arctic Siberia were 10 degrees higher than normal in most of last summer, causing fires and significant sea ice loss, he added.

Heat waves also played an important role in being designated as one of the warmest three years in the world in 2020.

Last year, Antarctica recorded a record high of 18.3 ° C, according to Taaras.

WMO is trying to verify the 54.4C recorded in both 2020 and 2021 in Death Valley, California, the hottest place in the world.

And the expert is working on verifying the new European temperature record of 48.8C reported in Sicily, Italy this past summer.

According to Taaras, the WMO archive “has never been so many simultaneous investigations.”