“The record was recorded on June 20, Saturday, and we asked experts from the Institute for Arctic and Antarctic Research of the Roshydromedcentre to explain why it is in this region of Eastern Siberia that the temperature is extremely cold in winter and extremely high in summer,” RIA Novosti quoted the official representative of WMO Claire Nullis .
She noted that temperatures above 30 ° C in July for Yakutia is a common occurrence, but 38 ° C is an exclusively occurrence.
According to her, in Siberia in the spring of 2020, unusually high temperatures were generally recorded.
In May 2019, the Spanish newspaper El Pais ranked the cities of the world with extreme, including weather, conditions. The publication notes that in Verkhoyansk, temperature fluctuations were observed from -69.8 ° C in winter to +37 ° C in summer.
In November 2019, it was reported that classes in the first to seventh grade were suspended at a school in the city of Verkhoyansk due to established 50-degree frosts.