Heat wave, Fire, Flood and Hurricane

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Siberia 10C hotter in warmest May on record: EU

The heatwave across parts of Siberia and Alaska will cause particular alarm in regions that were engulfed by huge forest fires last year fuelled by record heat, and where Copernicus has warned that "zombie" blazes smouldering underground may be reigniting.

Siberia 10C hotter in warmest May on record: EU

Many of the prophecies concerning the coming of the day of the Lord refer to fire sweeping through, in front of the fire it is the garden of eden, and behind it desolation. I thought this thread would be a good way to keep a journal of these fires. I'll try to add what we know about last years fires and data on the averages.

 

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Wildfire in California destroys several homes, forces evacuations

Wildfire in California destroys several homes, forces evacuations

The Suisun City Fire Department said on Facebook the blaze erupted around 3:30 p.m. near the Suisun City Wildlife Center, spreading into a nearby neighborhood.

Temperatures that reached 100 degrees in the community, which is about 50 miles southwest of Sacramento, helped the blaze quickly grow to four alarms.

 

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Wildfire in California destroys several homes, forces evacuations

Wildfire in California destroys several homes, forces evacuations

The Suisun City Fire Department said on Facebook the blaze erupted around 3:30 p.m. near the Suisun City Wildlife Center, spreading into a nearby neighborhood.

Temperatures that reached 100 degrees in the community, which is about 50 miles southwest of Sacramento, helped the blaze quickly grow to four alarms.

Last year by the end of October California had had 70,000+ wildfires and had 7 million acres burned.

 

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Arizona wildfire now largest burning in US

A fast-moving wildfire in Arizona explodes in size, forcing evacuations near Phoenix.

 

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Walker Fire in Calaveras County grows to 1,100 acres, destroys 2 structures

Walker Fire in Calaveras County grows to 1,100 acres, destroys 2 structures

After burning 1,000 acres by Tuesday evening, the Walker Fire was reported at 1,100 acres with 10 percent containment as of a 7 a.m. Wednesday incident update. Two structures have been destroyed and about 50 more remain threatened, Cal Fire says.

 

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California utility PG&E pleads guilty to 84 wildfire deaths

A California utility has pleaded guilty to the deaths of 84 people in a wildfire, the deadliest US corporate crime ever successfully prosecuted.

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) admitted the 2018 Camp Fire, the state's deadliest and most destructive, was caused by its faulty equipment.

 

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Arizona wildfire now largest burning in US

A fast-moving wildfire in Arizona explodes in size, forcing evacuations near Phoenix.

Giant wildfire near Phoenix continues to grow as Arizona coronavirus cases spike

A massive wildfire just northeast of Phoenix continued to burn through thousands of acres of desert and forestland Wednesday, triggering evacuations as Arizona is also dealing with a spike in coronavirus cases.

The so-called Bush Fire in Tonto National Forest has grown to nearly 90,000 acres — up from 64,000 on Tuesday — and was only 5 percent contained, according to InciWeb, the U.S. Forest Service's wildfire information site.

The blaze began Saturday with a car fire. Amid mostly sustained winds of 25 mph to 30 mph, it quickly spread through terrain that includes Sonoran desert and canyon lands to ponderosa pine forest, said Dee Hines, a spokesman for the team fighting the fire.

Giant wildfire near Phoenix continues to grow as Arizona coronavirus cases spike

 

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Arctic records its hottest temperature ever
Jeff Berardelli
June 20, 2020, 7:21 PM EDT
Alarming heat scorched Siberia on Saturday as the small town of Verkhoyansk (67.5°N latitude) reached 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, 32 degrees above the normal high temperature. If verified, this is likely the hottest temperature ever recorded in Siberia and also the hottest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle, which begins at 66.5°N.

Arctic records its hottest temperature ever

 

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Satellite images show wildfires ravaging the Arctic circle

Wildfires are ravaging parts of the Arctic Circle, with areas of Siberia, Alaska, Greenland and Canada engulfed in flames and smoke.

 

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A raging wildfire burning northeast of Phoenix, Ariz., now the largest active fire in the nation, is also in the record books after becoming one of the largest in state history as the blaze consumed another 10,000 acres as of Sunday morning.

Arizona's Bush Fire now fifth largest wildfire in state history, blaze grows by 10,000 acres

 

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'Off-the-charts warm': Siberian town hits 100 degrees

 

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The Long Summer is coming.​

It has been thousands of years since the last long summer.

MOSCOW (AP) — The Arctic is feverish and on fire — at least parts of it are. And that’s got scientists worried about what it means for the rest of the world.

The thermometer hit a likely record of 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Russian Arctic town of Verkhoyansk on Saturday, a temperature that would be a fever for a person — but this is Siberia, known for being frozen. The World Meteorological Organization said Tuesday that it’s looking to verify the temperature reading, which would be unprecedented for the region north of the Arctic Circle.

“The Arctic is figuratively and literally on fire — it’s warming much faster than we thought it would in response to rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and this warming is leading to a rapid meltdown and increase in wildfires,” University of Michigan environmental school dean Jonathan Overpeck, a climate scientist, said in an email.

“The record warming in Siberia is a warning sign of major proportions,” Overpeck wrote.

Much of Siberia had high temperatures this year that were beyond unseasonably warm. From January through May, the average temperature in north-central Siberia has been about 8 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit) above average, according to the climate science non-profit Berkeley Earth.

“That’s much, much warmer than it’s ever been over that region in that period of time,” Berkeley Earth climate scientist Zeke Hausfather said.

Siberia is in the Guinness Book of World Records for its extreme temperatures. It’s a place where the thermometer has swung 106 degrees Celsius (190 degrees Fahrenheit), from a low of minus 68 degrees Celsius (minus 90 Fahrenheit) to now 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit).

For residents of the Sakha Republic in the Russian Arctic, a heat wave is not necessarily a bad thing. Vasilisa Ivanova spent every day this week with her family swimming and sunbathing.

“We spend the entire day on the shore of the Lena River,” said Ivanova, who lives in the village of Zhigansk, 270 miles (430 kilometers) from where the heat record was set. “We’ve been coming every day since Monday.”

But for scientists, “alarm bells should be ringing,” Overpeck wrote.

Such prolonged Siberian warmth hasn’t been seen for thousands of years “and it is another sign that the Arctic amplifies global warming even more than we thought,” Overpeck said.

The Arctic is on fire: Siberian heat wave alarms scientists

 

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For the second straight year, an unusually large number of intense fires have ignited in the Arctic Circle, the polar region atop Earth.

It's now been anomalously warm in Siberia for nearly six months, and temperatures likely eclipsed triple digits in a Siberian town last weekend — setting a heat record for the Arctic Circle. This streak of warm and hot conditions has set the stage for blazes to torch the dried-out region. Last year, unprecedented fires burned in the Arctic Circle, and new data from Copernicus, the European Union's earth observation agency, show the number and intensity of fires is similar in 2020.

Extreme fires erupt in the Arctic Circle

 

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Meteorologists Warn 'Potentially Historic Heat' Could Swelter Most of U.S. in July

Meteorologists Warn 'Potentially Historic Heat' Could Swelter Most of U.S. in July

In a year where we've already had a once-in-a-century global pandemic, murder hornets, the release of videos showing an "unidentified aerial phenomena," and the passing of the biggest Sahara dust storm in 50 years, it's evident that if something out of the ordinary were to occur, it would happen in 2020.

So, you shouldn’t be shocked to discover that the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center forecasts "increased chances" of unusually hot temperatures coming in July to two-thirds of the United States. A heat wave that hasn't been felt since 2011 and 2012.

 

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Meteorologists Warn 'Potentially Historic Heat' Could Swelter Most of U.S. in July

Meteorologists Warn 'Potentially Historic Heat' Could Swelter Most of U.S. in July

In a year where we've already had a once-in-a-century global pandemic, murder hornets, the release of videos showing an "unidentified aerial phenomena," and the passing of the biggest Sahara dust storm in 50 years, it's evident that if something out of the ordinary were to occur, it would happen in 2020.

So, you shouldn’t be shocked to discover that the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center forecasts "increased chances" of unusually hot temperatures coming in July to two-thirds of the United States. A heat wave that hasn't been felt since 2011 and 2012.

Just a few minutes ago, someone sent me a weather map photo via phone showing the forecast heat index in Texas and Oklahoma in shades of red (places I lived for decades in that map), and man I'm glad I'm not down there this week. That map has plenty of darker red, the worse intensity.

 

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For the second straight year, an unusually large number of intense fires have ignited in the Arctic Circle, the polar region atop Earth.

It's now been anomalously warm in Siberia for nearly six months, and temperatures likely eclipsed triple digits in a Siberian town last weekend — setting a heat record for the Arctic Circle. This streak of warm and hot conditions has set the stage for blazes to torch the dried-out region. Last year, unprecedented fires burned in the Arctic Circle, and new data from Copernicus, the European Union's earth observation agency, show the number and intensity of fires is similar in 2020.

Extreme fires erupt in the Arctic Circle

Yes, this bears watching. One article suggested there could be new (old frozen) microbes being released in the thawing tundra. Another article last year about fires in Australia comes to mind where researchers found dark soot particles falling onto snow and ice in New Zealand (if I recall), which was expected to accelerate melt, and of course we could expect also lower albedo, increasing local solar heating.

 

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Yes, this bears watching. One article suggested there could be new (old frozen) microbes being released in the thawing tundra. Another article last year about fires in Australia comes to mind where researchers found dark soot particles falling onto snow and ice in New Zealand (if I recall), which was expected to accelerate melt, and of course we could expect also lower albedo, increasing local solar heating.

I was somewhat shocked by the fires last year in Australia, California and Siberia. But the prophecies don't merely talk about 4 different pandemics, they also talk about fire, so I thought it would be good to pay attention to this from the get go.

 

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July 4 will kick off extreme heatwave across U.S. that has scientists alarmed

 

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Uncontrolled fires are already sweeping across the forests of Russia, and have been for months. On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources reported that efforts were being made to extinguish 272 forest fires covering an area 12 times the size of the District of Columbia, including 10 on specially protected natural territories extending over an area bigger than Manhattan.

Arctic Oil Infrastructure Faces Climate Karma

 

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The wildfire crisis in Siberia continues unabated. This year’s blazes have smashed records, including the northernmost fires on record and the highest total of Siberian carbon emissions. If you want to know what a climate emergency looks like, this is it.

Fire season in Siberia started with a bang in April and hasn’t quit since, largely due to the relentless heat that has cooked the region. Siberia has been the most abnormally hot place on Earth all year, and continued pulses of heat are expected to ripple across the region through at least mid-July. Remote fires have been nearly impossible to control and monitor. The coronavirus has made matters worse, with people escaping from cities and starting fires and firefighters struggling to socially distance while battling blazes.

As a result of the widespread fire activity, the region has sent carbon streaming into the atmosphere. Mark Parrington, a senior scientist studying fires with the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, tweeted that June 2020 saw the highest level of carbon emissions from Siberian fires on record, with an estimated 59 megatons of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. That broke the record set [checks notes] last year amid a catastrophic fire season and is roughly equivalent to the entire annual emissions of Portugal. “Just based on the fire data, we had seen some increasing yearly activity in the Arctic Circle between 2015 and 2018, but the last two years have been a lot higher than in those years,” Parrington told Earther

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