Yakutsk, Siberia - World's Coldest Large City At 20C Above Seasonal Temps; Fires Near Magadan
The world’s coldest city is on course to be up to 20C milder than usual for this time of year, says the scientific director of Russia's Hydrometeorological Center, Roman Vilfand. This may see Yakutsk - Russia’s diamond capital - at minus 4C (24.8F) early next week, still cold to many people, but for locals this is balmy compared with the expected minus 24C (-11.2F).
Elsewhere in Siberia and the Russian Far East other extreme anomalies are expected in temperatures. ‘Very warm weather, simply huge anomalies of up to 14-17C (57.2F to 62.6F) degrees are expected in Krasnoyarsk region, the west of Yakutia and Magadan region at the beginning of next week,’ said Dr Vilfand. ‘The streams of warm air from the south and west determine this situation. This is an amazing situation,’ he said.
Ed. - NOTE: These temperatures denote the air temperatures, not the temperature variations.
Meanwhile pictures show the vivid colours of plants at the Sayano-Shushenskiy Biosphere Reserve, that until now would not be blossoming in October or November. They are a delight to see, but give quite a warning of changing weather patterns as Cop26 is underway in Scotland. ‘For some plants, blooming in the autumn has become almost common - for example, Ledebour's Rhododendron now blooms almost annually in autumn.
‘But for others it is not at all common. Seven plants and flowers that were never seen blooming in Autumn gave us flowers in the middle of October. ‘Two - Kuvaev’s Poppy and Turchaninov’s pasqueflower - are especially interesting, as they bloom early in April and May, and again this was the first autumn on record that they were blooming’, the reserve's representative in Central Siberia said.
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