Russia last month recorded the second highest average temperature in May in 130 years, according to the country’s climate monitoring system, Roshydromet.
May 2021 officially became the second warmest month of May in Russia since the start of measurements in 1891 – the second after May 2020, the average temperature of which was 0.5 degrees Celsius higher.
“The change in temperature in Russia over the past two centuries is impressive”– commented earlier this month, meteorologist Scott Duncan via Twitter.
Yevgeny Tishkovets, a specialist of the Metropolitan Meteorological Center “Phobos”, announced this on Monday. Russia today what kind “At this time the temperature will exceed normal for the weather, 13-15 degrees higher.”
“In addition, levels of heat will be recorded almost every day that have not been felt in more than a century of measurements.”
According to the expert, it is highly likely that be beaten by “an absolute record in the month of June, which has not been seen since 1901, when the air temperature exceeded 34.7 degrees.”
“This heat was recorded only 120 years ago.”– reminded the meteorologist.
The Central Federal District, home to over 38 million Russians, will face high levels of ultraviolet radiation.
As the scientific director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand told RIA Novosti, “This situation is rare in the European part of Russia” and warns the population “beware of the strong sun”.…
On Monday, the health monitoring system of Rospotrebnadzor reported that Companies should consider reducing working hours if office and workspace temperatures exceed 28.5 degrees.
It should be recalled that an almost unprecedented heat wave hit the West of Russia in 2010, when temperatures were well above the seasonal average. An estimated 55,000 people died from these extreme conditions and agricultural production fell by 25 percent.
In accordance with Moscow Times, Russia heats up 2.5 times faster than the planet as a whole.
As recently as last year, massive forest fires swept across Siberia, and temperatures in the Far North soared to 38 degrees Celsius, breaking temperature records in the Arctic. It is estimated that more than 1.15 million hectares of forest burned down in June 2020 due to climate change, which worries environmentalists.
