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Portions of Kazakhstan (top) and Kyrgyzstan at the bottom. The lake at the top of the image is Lake Balkhash. The environment of Kazakhstan has been badly damaged by human activity. Most of the water in Kazakhstan is polluted by industrial effluents, pesticide and fertilizer residue, and, in some places, radioactive elements.
Christopher C. Burt, a weather historian writing for Weather Underground, believes that the 1913 Death Valley reading is "a myth", and is at least 2.2 or 2.8 °C (4 or 5 °F) too high. [13] Burt proposes that the highest reliably recorded temperature on Earth could still be at Death Valley, but is instead 54.0 °C (129.2 °F) recorded on 30 ...
The Kazakh semi-desert is an ecoregion in the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, located in Kazakhstan.The climate is semi-arid and continental, with a total annual precipitation of 160 millimetres (6.3 in), and mean temperatures in January averaging −15 °C (5 °F) and in July 23 °C (73 °F).
The climate of the region is Humid continental climate, warm summer (Köppen climate classification). [5] [6] This climate is characterized by high variation in temperature, both daily and seasonally; with long, cold winters and short, cool summers with no month averaging over 22 °C (72 °F). There is just sufficient precipitation (averaging ...
Continental climates are considered as temperate climate varieties due to their location in the temperate zones, [2] [3] but are classified separately from other temperate climates in the Köppen climate classification system where they are identified by their first letter, a capital D. In the Trewartha climate classification, they are ...
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Rapid attribution analysis found this was a 1000-year weather event, made 150 times more likely by climate change. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The heat wave affected Northern California , Idaho , Western Nevada , Oregon , and Washington in the United States, as well as British Columbia , and, in its latter phase, Alberta , Manitoba , the Northwest ...