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Russia experienced a Warmer 2020 in recorded history

The average temperature in Russia in September 2020 was the highest in 130 years of observations, the national weather agency announced on Monday, as climate change continues to have a profound effect on the world’s largest country.

Almost every part of Russia reported temperatures higher than normal early fall averages, the Russian Hydrometeorology Center’s chief specialist Marina Makarova told Moscow news agency RIA Novosti. “The largest anomalies were observed in the north of Eurasia, where temperatures exceeded norms by five to six degrees,” she explained.

“It was also very warm in the European [part of Russia’s] territory, but the difference was smaller,” she continued. “In the southeast, the temperature was about normal, and in the west and north, the excess was two to three degrees.”