MAIN WEATHER AND CLIMATE TRAITS IN THE NORTHEN HEMISPHERE AS OF JUNE 2022
Air Temperature
Air Temperature
In the first decade of June, abnormally warm weather in the ETR was only observed in the north (in the Murmansk and Arkhangelsk Regions, and in Komi Republic) where the anomalies of decade-averaged temperatures reached +4-7°, and in the south (in the Crimea, in the Krasnodar Territory and in the republics of the North Caucasus) where these anomalies amounted to +3-5°. In Dagestan, the thermometer readings rose to the 35° mark sometimes, resulting in new daily temperature maxima in a number of locations such as Makhachkala and Derbent. In the rest of the territory, the air temperature was approximately normal in the first decade and normal or somewhat higher than that in the second one. Notably, the said "higher" values were measured in the same regions as in the first decade, i.e., in the north and south of the ETR, even though the anomalies themselves became significantly weaker. The third decade started roughly with the same weather, but in its last five days, the weather became hot in the north-west of Russia, with the temperatures up to 30° or higher observed and new daily maxima recorded in Karelia as well as in the Leningrad, Novgorod, Pskov and Murmansk Regions. Yet at the same time, very cold air came to the north of the ETR as well as to the Volga and Cis-Ural Regions where the record-breaking temperature minima were reported in the republics of Komi and Udmurtia and in the Kostroma, Vladimir, Samara and Orenburg Regions: there, the average temperature in the third decade turned out to be 3-5° less than normal.
In Siberia and in the Far East, the weather was generally warmer than usual. Only at the beginning of the month, cold weather prevailed in the south of Western Siberia and in Altai. New daily temperature minima were set in the Omsk, Kemerovo and Novosibirsk Regions as well as in the republics of Tyva and Khakassia. In the third decade, the same happened in the Magadan Region. For the rest of the time, the anomalies of decade-averaged temperatures reached +5-9° in some places. The weather in Yakutia was extremely hot: the temperatures up to +35° and above were observed there for several days in a row, or up to +30° and above beyond the Arctic Circle.
MAIN WEATHER AND CLIMATE TRAITS IN THE NORTHEN HEMISPHERE AS OF MAY 2022
Air Temperature
The whole month in the ETR was abnormally cold. In each of the three decades, there were areas of decade-averaged temperatures 2-4° lower than normal, and in the first decade, five or more degrees lower. New daily temperature minima were recorded everywhere from the Volgograd Region to the Lower Volga, and the resulting monthly averages turned out to be 2-3 or more degrees below the normal values in the Central, Volga and Southern Federal Districts. The last time such a cold May was logged by the statisticians some twenty years ago in 1999-2002, though in the Volga region, May 2017 was also very cold. But in the last days of the month, the record-breaking heat came to the north and south of the ETR, and new temperature maxima were measured in the Arkhangelsk Region as well as in the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories.
In contrast to the ETR, the weather in the Urals and in Siberia was mostly warm or even hot from time to time. In the history of meteorological observations, this May was the second warmest in Siberia, yielding to May 2020 only, and the fourth warmest in the Urals where the monthly-averaged air temperatures were 4-8° higher than normal, and the decade-averaged ones, 6-12° higher in the second and third decades. Numerous daily temperature maxima were set all the way from Taimyr to Altai, Khakassia and the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
In the Far East, above-normal temperatures were recorded in the north of the region only (in Chukotka, Kolyma and northern Yakutia), accompanied with new temperature maxima. Meanwhile, the temperature background in the south was normal. As a result, the monthly-averaged air temperature turned out to be 2-4° higher than normal in the north, and close to normal in the south, even at a negative background in some places.