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A Historic Heat Wave Roasts Siberia

Wildfires are spreading. The mosquitoes are ravenous. People are
shielding their windows from the midnight sun with foil and blankets.

MOSCOW — They used to ride snowmobiles in June in Russkoye Ustye, a
Siberian village by the Arctic Ocean coast.

Last week, the temperature in the area hit 88 degrees.

“Nature is taking its revenge on us, probably,” Sergei Portnyagin, the village head, said by telephone. “We’ve been too bloody in how we’ve treated it.”

The climate has been warming rapidly in the Arctic for years, but even
by those standards, a heat wave roasting northern Siberia for the past
few weeks has been shocking.

Wildfires are spreading. The fishing is meager, the mosquitoes ravenous.
People are nailing their windows shut with foil and blankets, seeking
refuge from the midnight sun.

The town of Verkhoyansk, more than 400 miles farther north than
Anchorage, Alaska, topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit last Saturday, possibly
the hottest temperature ever recorded above the Arctic Circle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/world/europe/siberia-heat-wave-climate-change.html

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