# Siberian high temperature certified! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siberian-high-temperature-certified/956072 "2021-12-14T21:10:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siberian-high-temperature-certified/956072/1 "2021-12-14T21:10:30Z")
In another incredible victory for Climate Change: > **[UN weather agency affirms 2020 Arctic heat record in Siberia](https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-fires-united-nations-weather-heat-waves-db968e292f9581ef9caca0bab01267fd)** > > The U.N. weather agency has certified a 38-degree Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit) reading in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk last year as the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic. > [@](#): > > The World Meteorological Organization said the temperature “more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic” was registered on June 20, 2020, during a heat wave that swept across Siberia and stretched north of the Arctic Circle. > > Average temperatures were up to 10 degrees Celsius more than usual in Arctic Siberia, playing a key role in forest fires, loss of sea ice and global temperature rises that made 2020 one of the three hottest years on record. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siberian-high-temperature-certified/956072/2 "2021-12-15T12:47:28Z")
It looks like Verhoyansk is back to its normal winter temperatures in the -40 C to -60 C (-40 F to -76 F) range. [Verkhoyansk, Russia 14 day weather forecast](https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/russia/verkhoyansk/ext) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siberian-high-temperature-certified/956072/3 "2021-12-15T17:28:00Z")
Check this out: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9UDYFt_8ycw/maxresdefault.jpg "What We Wear at -71°C (-95°F)? Yakutia, Siberia") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UDYFt_8ycw) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/siberian-high-temperature-certified/956072/4 "2021-12-15T18:03:55Z")
65 degrees right now in La Crosse, west-central Wisconsin, on December 15.