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Experts warn that episodes of temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius are expected due to climate change.
Forest fires spread across southern Siberia. According to Russian media, at least 27,000 hectares were burned last year and another 27,000 were burned in other regions. NASA
An extreme heat wave is affecting the countries of northern Europe. According to a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), presented this week, the Scandinavian countries are reaching temperatures up to 10 degrees above normal at this time of year, droughts and the risks of fire.
According to this organization, places such as Lapland (Finland), a place characterized by snow and cold, reached a maximum of 33 degrees and different points in northern Norway had also exceeded 30 degrees, in addition to minimum temperatures above 25 degrees on the night of July 18th. According to this entity, the extreme temperatures will lengthen the drought that these countries have been experiencing since May of last year, "which can have a big impact on agriculture and the risk of fire."
According to El País de España, and thanks to readings from NASA's Copernicus satellite, various locations reached 40 degrees centigrade in June. The consequences were fires, lack of electrical energy, dysfunctional transportation and the interruption of some utilities.
There have even been cases of drowning people who have plunged into the water to cool off. (Read also: The heat wave leaves a week of high temperature records worldwide)
On a large scale, the effects were the melting of sea ice in the Laptev Sea (Siberia) and the layers under -marines (permafrost)
Climatologist Nicholas Humphrey wrote on his Facebook a reflection on the extreme temperatures in Siberia (Russia) that reached their historical maximum in 100 years: "It's absolutely amazing, the l-39 one of the most intense heat events that there has ever seen in such a northern latitude, "he said. Humphrey says that the drop in ice volume caused by the Siberian heatwave has mostly affected the Russian Arctic coast. Rapid warming of the sea can accelerate the emission of gases such as CO2 and methane from permafrost, and these emissions can have serious consequences in other parts of the northern hemisphere. Negative alterations also occur in the polar jet stream, one of the main factors influencing weather conditions at mid-latitudes. "(Read: They capture a video that breaks a huge glacier)
Earlier this month, more than 50 people died of heat stroke in eastern Canada. United States), several records were broken with temperatures above 45 degrees during the first week of July. "The expert told El País in Spain that although it is not as easy to link a single event that Siberia with climate change, the scientific experiment indicates that all atmospheric phenomena are connected.
Sweden is the country most affected by fires, of considerable dimensions since its smoke can be view of space, according to WMO
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