MAIN WEATHER AND CLIMATE TRAITS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE AS OF AUGUST 2024
Air Temperature
Coolness that came to the ETR at the end of July remained there for the entire first half of August, and even led to new record-breaking colds and to the first frosts in the north. In the first decade, the average temperature anomalies in the Volga region were -2° or below. Everything changed with the advent of heat in the third decade, when such anomalies reached +3…5 or more degrees in Central Russia, and new temperature maxima were recorded in the Black Earth region, Krasnodar Territory and Crimea and, in the last days of the month, in north-west as well, namely, in the Leningrad and Pskov Regions and in the Republic of Karelia.
In the Urals, the air temperature in the first half of August was close to normal, with the exception of Yamal where the weather in the second decade was slightly warmer than usual. And, just like in the ETR, the heat came to the Urals in the third decade, and the monthly-averaged temperatures in some places exceeded their normal values by two or more degrees.
A similar picture was observed in Siberia where the temperatures were close to normal in the first half of August, and increased to 2-3° above normal thereafter.
MAIN WEATHER AND CLIMATE TRAITS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE AS OF JULY 2024
Air Temperature
This July, the average air temperature in Russia reproduced the record-breaking value set in July 2010. It was the ever hottest July in Siberia, and as hot as the unprecedented July of the previous year in the Asian territory of the country.
In the ETR, the month started from very hot weather. New records of heat where set in the north-west, in the central and Volga regions, in Crimea and in Kuban. The thermometer readings in the south rose to 40° at times, and the air temperature anomalies for the first decade were 3-5° or higher.
In the second decade, abnormal heat generally survived in the south and west of the ETR where new temperature maxima were recorded again. In Crimea, the air would heat up to above 40°, and the temperature anomalies for the second decade reached +6 or more degrees.
The long-awaited cool weather came in the third decade only, and the decade-averaged air temperature in the ETR became normal again or even sub-normal in some locations, but the temperatures above 40° were still measured in the resorts of the Krasnodar Territory, and new temperature maxima over 30° were recorded in the Murmansk Region.