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#June2020 Becomes Earth's #SecondWarmest June on Record as Unprecedented Heatwave Sweeps Siberian Arctic

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(Data source: ERA5. Credit: Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF)

By @deekshith_np

As the calendar pages turn, every weather enthusiast finds one constant news on their feed over the past five years—the records broken by the previous month's average temperature.

Apart from the strong El Niño year of 2016, the current year (2020) and the last year (2019) has been unusually hot, shattering the decades of temperature records across the globe. And the streak has continued in June 2020 as well.

➡️According to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), last month, the global average temperature was 0.53°C warmer than the average June temperatures from 1981 to 2010.

This figure makes June 2020 the second warmest June on record after June 2019.

#Verkhoyansk—a Siberian small town located in the Arctic Circle recorded a whopping 38°C (100° F) on June 20, 2020, which is the highest temperature ever recorded in the polar region.

(Data source: ERA5. Credit: Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF.)

The Copernicus report also adds that temperatures averaged over the 12-month period between July 2019 to June 2020 are also well above average.

#CentralCanada and #NorthernIndia, however, were the few land areas where the average temperatures were lower than average.

The last decade was the warmest decade on record. In fact, every decade since the 1960s has been warmer than the one before. And the start of this decade has seen the trend continue.