The preliminary new warm temperature record at Verhojansk, Siberia, in context

Prior July 2 article about heat 

records in the Arctic, is here;
https://elonionbloggle.blogspot.com/2020/07/climate-scientists-panic-arctic-town.html

The preliminary record 

on June 20 of this year 

was only +0.7C 

higher than the previous 

record set in 1988 for the 

same Siberian town.

Extremely hot summer days 

do happen in Verhojansk, 

with heatwaves in 1988 and 2010. 

Prior to this summer, 

the last really hot day 

was July 2011, when 

temperatures reached 

34.1C.

The warmest summer 

at Verhojansk was 1917 ! 

The summers of 2010 

and 2011 were also unusually 

hot, but since then summers 

have been no hotter than 

some in the early 20th

century.

The claimed 

new record of 38C 

on June 20th, 2020 

has not been verified yet, 

and has actually been 

removed from the 

official GHCN database.

Looking at the entire

Arctic, this new “record” 

replaces the previous

one in Alaska of 37.8C, 

which was set in 1915 !

An increase of 0.2C 

in more than a century 

is not an apocalypse.

Temperatures across 

the Arctic were broadly 

as high in the 1930s and 

1940s as they are now. 

Temperatures plunged 

in the 1960s and 70s, 

when Arctic sea ice 

expanded massively:

This cycle 

is linked to the 

Atlantic 

Multidecadal 

Oscillation 

(AMO). 

The data

clearly show 

the warming part 

of the cycle, 

which began 

around 1990, 

has now 

leveled off. 

The Arctic is likely to get

colder when the AMO

turns negative again.