While it was cold in Toronto last weekend, in the balmy arctic ocean near Russia it was 29C.

Saturday’s steamy reading was posted in Arkhangelsk, Russia, where the average high temperature is around 12 C this time of year. The city of 350,000 people sits next to the White Sea, which feeds into the Arctic Ocean’s Barents Sea.

In Koynas, a rural area to the east of Arkhangelsk, it was even hotter on Sunday, soaring to 30.6 C. Many locations in Russia, from the Kazakhstan border to the White Sea, set record-high temperatures over the weekend. The warmth also bled west into Finland, which hit 25 C Saturday, the country’s warmest temperature of the season so far.

Source: The Star

Climate change is the largest threat to humanity and the modern conservative movement is going nuts denying science for the benefit of private industry…  Sigh we’re doomed