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.
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.