MAIN WEATHER AND CLIMATE TRAITS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE AS OF JULY 2026

Air temperature

Throughout July, air temperatures in most of the ETR remained close to normal or even much lower than that sometimes. In the Central Black Earth Region (including Tambov and Voronezh), the average air temperature in the second decade was 2° lower than normal, and in the Novgorod, Tver and Vologda Regions, new temperature minima were recorded. Upon that, the thermometer readings dropped below +5°. Only in the last days of the month, abnormal warmth came to the north-east of the ETR and partly to the Volga region, and air temperatures reached +30-34° in the north or up to 40° in the Middle Volga region.

The picture was completely different in the Urals and to the east of them, where the weather was notably warmer than usual for most of the month. The air would heat up to +35° in the southern Urals and in Altai, and new temperature maxima were repeatedly recorded in the north of the Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk Territories, in Yakutia, Kamchatka and Taimyr, in Evenkiya and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District. However, surprising colds were unavoidable: thus, extremely cold air permeated to southern Siberia at the end of the first decade. New daily minima of air temperature were measured in the Tomsk and Kemerovo Regions, as well as in the Murmansk Region at the beginning of the third decade.

Air temperature

In Russia, the weather was abnormally hot in the Urals and in Siberia: there, the thermometer readings rose to +30-35° or above, and new daily temperature maxima were recorded. The decade-averaged temperatures were 2-8° higher than normal and, as a result, this month in the Urals became the warmest in the entire history of regular meteorological observations since 1891, while in Siberia, the second warmest after the record-breaking 2018.

In the ETR, warmth and cold alternated each other. In the north, warm weather in the first half of June with the decade-averaged anomalies of up to +2…3° yielded to coolness in the third decade. Air temperatures in the central region were mostly close to normal, but changed to noticeably colder ones by the end of the month. Meanwhile in the south, cold weather prevailed for most of the month, to become 2-4° colder than usual in the third decade at some locations. In the South and North-Caucasian Federal Districts, the monthly-averaged air temperature in June was subnormal.

In the Far East, the weather was notably warmer than normal in Chukotka only in the first half of the month, but elsewhere, it was approximately normal.