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Related: About this forumParts of Siberia are Colder Than Minus 60 Degrees Fahrenheit, and It's Only November
https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2017-11-28-siberia-colder-than-minus-60-degrees-in-novemberAs mild temperatures encompass a large swath of the contiguous United States this week, parts of Siberia are experiencing temperatures colder than minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit and it's only November.
A low temperature of minus 69 degrees was recorded early Tuesday in Delyankir, Russia. This is colder than the all-time record lows in every U.S. state except Utah (-69 degrees), Montana (-70 degrees) and Alaska (-80 degrees).
If that wasn't incredible enough, the daytime high in Delyankir Tuesday failed to rise above -60 degrees.
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A weather pattern change a week to 10 days from now could cause some air from near the Arctic Circle to spill into the central and eastern U.S.
Of course, too cold in Siberia is part of our crazy climate changes.
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Parts of Siberia are Colder Than Minus 60 Degrees Fahrenheit, and It's Only November (Original Post)
steve2470
Nov 2017
OP
the higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making the global climate more extreme...
steve2470
Nov 2017
#2
higher amplitude jet streams contribute to both abnormally cold and warm spells
CreekDog
Nov 2017
#3
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)1. Sucks to be in Siberia
for a variety of reasons, but how does this figure into the whole global warming thing?
steve2470
(37,457 posts)2. the higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making the global climate more extreme...
so it gets WARMER than usual and also COLDER than usual once in a while. The hotter weather gets all the headlines, but AFAIK the cold end of the spectrum happens too at times. Weather is just more extreme than it used to be, on a more regular basis.
Future climate change and associated impacts will differ from region to region.[13][14] Anticipated effects include increasing global temperatures, rising sea levels, changing precipitation, and expansion of deserts in the subtropics.[15] Warming is expected to be greater over land than over the oceans and greatest in the Arctic, with the continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Other likely changes include more frequent extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, heavy rainfall with floods and heavy snowfall;[16] ocean acidification; and species extinctions due to shifting temperature regimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)3. higher amplitude jet streams contribute to both abnormally cold and warm spells
the warm air reaches farther north and with more intensity and vice versa.
and this has been predicted as a feature of global warming/climate change
https://phys.org/news/2015-02-evidence-link-wavy-jet-stream.html
steve2470
(37,457 posts)4. yea, what you said, thank you! nt