MAIN WEATHER AND CLIMATE TRAITS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE AS OF JUNE 2024
Air Temperature
Warm weather observed in the ETR at the end of spring remained warm with the beginning of summer. In the south, it can be even considered exceedingly warm owing to new daily temperature maxima over 35-36° in Crimea, the Donetsk People's Republic, the Krasnodar Territory as well as in the Rostov, Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions. The decade-averaged temperatures were 3-4° higher than normal. Roughly the same anomalies were recorded in the central and northern regions of the ETR, along with new maxima in the Vologda, Kostroma and Moscow Regions.
In the second decade, the heat intensified, and occupied almost the entire European territory, with the decade-averaged temperature anomalies in excess of 4-7° and the record-breaking warmth now observed not only in the south where it came earlier, but also in the Middle and Lower Volga as well as in the Cis-Ural region: there, new daily temperature maxima were set as well.
Colds descended upon the ETR in the third decade when the air temperature became either close to normal or, for the most part, lower than that everywhere with the exception of the westernmost territories of the country: 2-3 or more degrees lower in some places.
Air temperature
Arctic colds hit the ETR in the first days of May and dominated there for most of the month, although their strength was especially noticeable in the first decade. No such prolonged colds had ever been observed in Central Russia at this time of year. The frosts reached -5…-9° in Central Russia and in the Black Earth and Volga regions, or -4° in the south, and came to the Kaliningrad Region in the west of the country as well. The decade-averaged temperature anomalies reached -4…-7 or lower degrees. In the second decade, the colds persisted (within the decade-averaged temperature anomalies down to -4° or colder), but started to give up already, up to the normal or even above-normal
values in the north-east of the country. At the beginning of the third decade, the abnormal colds in the east and north-east of the ETR still survived, but the weather in the north-west became extremely warm: new temperature maxima were recorded in Karelia as well as in the Vologda and Arkhangelsk Regions, and the thermometer readings would rise to such values that could be measured in July, and not every year for that matter. Yet, much more temperature minima were newly set in the ETR this May, especially, in the first and second decades of the monthFor most days of the month, the weather was colder than usual in the Urals, but predominantly warm rather than cold in the south of Siberia where the colds still reached in thethird decade, with the frosts down to -5° in Altai as well as in the Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Omsk and Tomsk Regions.