World's coldest city sees warmest June on record, driest in 133 years
June 2021:
Yakutsk, Siberia which is the world's coldest city by winter average temperatures has seen their warmest June on record by mean maximum temperature which was 26.9°C beating the previous record of 26.6°C set in June 1998 and also the driest June since 1888 which is coincidentally the first year of record. Only 1.9 mm of rain fell this June compared to the average of 36 mm.
This is after the longest frigid spell since the winter 1984-1985 during the past winter as temperatures stayed below -30°C from December 8 2020 all the way to February 8.
Yakutsk only saw 59.3 mm of rain over the first 6 months of the year compared to the average of around 90 mm.
Last year on June 20, temperatures at the coldest inhabited town in the world, Verkhoyansk, north of the Arctic circle saw temperatures rise to 38.0°C, the highest Arctic temperature on record.
Drier than usual conditions result in lower nighttime and winter temperatures with better radiational cooling but result in higher summer daytime conditions. During the winter prior to Australia's black summer, the temperature at Glen Innes at an altitude of only 1044 meter above sea level dipped to some -12.3°C, the second lowest on record, it saw the highest temperature on record the following summer. Malaysia's lowest low elevation temperature on record of 15.7°C was recorded in February 2014 during a drought where Kuala Lumpur's highest temperature on record of 37.9°C in March.
Yakutsk, Siberia which is the world's coldest city by winter average temperatures has seen their warmest June on record by mean maximum temperature which was 26.9°C beating the previous record of 26.6°C set in June 1998 and also the driest June since 1888 which is coincidentally the first year of record. Only 1.9 mm of rain fell this June compared to the average of 36 mm.
This is after the longest frigid spell since the winter 1984-1985 during the past winter as temperatures stayed below -30°C from December 8 2020 all the way to February 8.
Yakutsk only saw 59.3 mm of rain over the first 6 months of the year compared to the average of around 90 mm.
Last year on June 20, temperatures at the coldest inhabited town in the world, Verkhoyansk, north of the Arctic circle saw temperatures rise to 38.0°C, the highest Arctic temperature on record.
Drier than usual conditions result in lower nighttime and winter temperatures with better radiational cooling but result in higher summer daytime conditions. During the winter prior to Australia's black summer, the temperature at Glen Innes at an altitude of only 1044 meter above sea level dipped to some -12.3°C, the second lowest on record, it saw the highest temperature on record the following summer. Malaysia's lowest low elevation temperature on record of 15.7°C was recorded in February 2014 during a drought where Kuala Lumpur's highest temperature on record of 37.9°C in March.