temperature · Russia
Verkhoyansk, Sakha
June mean daily maximum
Modelled demonstration series · not observed data
Heat this far north is not a comfort story, it is a ground-stability story. Warm summers thaw permafrost that has been frozen for millennia, and everything built on it — roads, pipelines, apartment blocks — was engineered on the assumption that the ground would stay solid. Wildfire season in the boreal forest starts earlier at this reading too.
75 years, modelled
Same reading, two normals
| Normal | Mean | σ | Pct | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951–1980 | 20.6 °C | +4.40σ | >99.999th | 1 in 180,000 years |
| 1991–2020 | 22.8 °C | +2.50σ | 99.38th | 1 in 160 years |
Today would be the highest value in the entire 75-year modelled series. Past the series' standing high of 30.1 °C (2021). Nothing about the reading changes between rows — only the yardstick.
The season here
One of the largest annual temperature ranges on Earth: brutal winters, and a short, startlingly hot continental summer.
Where this series comes from
MODELLED SERIES — not observed. Parameters set from published Verkhoyansk June climatology and the observed rate of Arctic amplification. The 75 annual values are synthesised by the seeded generator. Population is a rounded Sakha Republic estimate.
Every number on this page comes from a modelled series: 75 annual values synthesised by a seeded generator from published climatological parameters for Verkhoyansk, Sakha. It shows how anomaly reasoning works. It is not a measurement and must not be cited as one.
How to read σ
σ counts standard deviations from this place's own normal. The sigma guide · return periods.
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