Historic heatwave in Moscow with record temperatures – News

Moscow is suffering a heatwave this week with a record temperature in 120 years, the Russian meteorological service announced on Tuesday, which links it to climate change.

On Monday, the Russian capital reached 34.7 ° C, the historic maximum reached in a month of June in 1901, according to the Rosguidromet agency. And Thursday and Friday, it could exceed 35ºC.

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“This is explained by global climate change and leads to heat records in the capital,” explains Marina Makarova, meteorologist at Rosguidromet.

Moscow’s temperature record (+ 38 ° C) dates back to July 2010, when much of western Russia suffered a heatwave and huge fires, AFP reported.

According to many scientists, Russia, especially Siberia and the Arctic, are among the regions most exposed to climate change in the world.

In recent years, several heat records have been broken, as well as gigantic and unusual fires.

In June 2020, in Verkhoyansk in the Arctic Circle, a temperature of 38 degrees was reached, the highest level since the start of meteorological records at the end of the 19th century.

Melting permafrost – frozen ground – threatens infrastructure and can release huge volumes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

But warming also offers advantages for Russia, such as the exploitation of the natural resources of the Arctic or the development of a sea route thanks to the retreat of the frozen surface.