MAIN WEATHER AND CLIMATE TRAITS IN THE NORTHEN HEMISPHERE AS OF MARCH 2024
Air temperature
Bitter cold which had been freezing most of Russia at the end of February quickly began to retreat with the onset of calendar spring. The air temperatures in the north-west of the ETR, in Central Russia and in the north of Siberia reached new maxima as early as in the first days of March, and the temperature anomalies averaged for the first decade amounted to +2-6° or more in these areas. Cold weather survived only in the Black Earth and Volga regions as well as in the south of the Far East, but intrusions of cold into abnormally warm regions did also take place: on the night from March 5 to March 6, such an intrusion targeted Central Russia where the thermometer readings dropped to -20°.
In the second decade, heat continued to set in, extending the area of its anomalous highs in the north-west and in Central Russia, and creating a new heat centre in the south of Siberia and in Trans-Baikal. New daily temperature maxima were recorded again in the north-west of the ETR, in the central region and in Cis-Urals, yet cold bursts down to -20° or to -25° in the Kama River area occurred stillIn the third decade, the weather remained cold along the Arctic coast, in the north of the Urals and in Yakutia only, with negative decade-averaged temperature anomalies of -2…-6° or larger, whereas the weather in the rest of the territory was abnormally warm, with anomalies up to +2-4° or more in the ETR, in the south of the Urals and of Western Siberia, and up to +2-10° in the Far East.
MAIN WEATHER AND CLIMATE TRAITS IN THE NORTHEN HEMISPHERE AS OF FEBRUARY 2024
Air temperature
New air temperature maxima that were set in the ETR at the end of January continued to come forth in the first decade of February: they were measured in the North Caucasus, the Black Earth region, Crimea, the Lower Volga and Donbass. Air temperature anomalies were negative in the north of the ETR only and positive everywhere else, up to +6° or more. The weather in the Urals and Western Siberia was even warmer than usual, with the temperatures up to or higher than +8…10°.
At the beginning of the second decade, the extremely hot weather with new daily maxima still persisted in the south of the ETR, but then, the colds came both there and to most of the country, and new record-breaking minima were now recorded in the republics of Altai and Khakassia located in the south of Siberia, in the Omsk and Novosibirsk Regions, and in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. At the same time, the heat was ousted far to the west of the country, and to Taimyr.
In the third decade, the heat advanced along the Arctic coast as well as to the north, north-west and centre of the ETR where the weather became so warm that even new temperature maxima were reported at the end of the month. But the rest of Russia was still frozen by bitter colds creating new temperature minima.