Four weeks of climate data: Arctic Circle Region #3

The third slice of the Arctic Circle is polar Siberia. It does not have the land mass of the previous Russian slice and there are less readings, but still enough data to get a fair idea of the trends.

The readings are mostly on the mainland, but the northernmost grid square comes from the islands known in Russian as Severnaya Zemlya.

The Winters in the last half of the 20th Century were fairly static, but the most recent interval shows both a warming trend and an increasing warming trend.

One very warm Spring in the 1980s makes the new record look unimpressive, but the median jumped over two degrees in the most recent interval compared to the 1988-1999 range.

Again, this shows warming and increasing warming.

If we just look at record highs, the 21st Century time interval looks to be cooler that the 1988-1999 era, but the median and the lowest trend both argue for warming and increasing warming.

The fall shows warming and increasing warming. The median rising over 4 degrees Celsius is a startling change.

So this region has to be counted as warming and increasingly so.

Warming regions: 3-0
Increasing trend regions: 2-1


Later today: Arctic Region #4, with parts of Russia, Alaska and Canada.