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The ongoing climate crisis is not going to spare Siberia.

Isaac SchultzYesterday 8:30AM611Alerts

Newly publishedsatellite imagery shows the ground temperature in at least one location inSiberia topped 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius) going into the year’s longest day. It’s hotSiberiaEarth summer, and it certainly won’t be the last.

While many heads swiveled to the American West as cities like Phoenix and Salt Lake City sufferedshockingly hot temperaturesthis past week, a similar climatological aberrance unfolded on the opposite side of the world in the Arctic Circle. That’s not bizarre when you consider that the planet heating up is a global affair, one that isn’t picky about its targets. We’re all the target!

The 118-degree-Fahrenheit temperature was measured on the ground in Verkhojansk, in Yakutia, Eastern Siberia, by the European Space Agency’s…