The main weather and climate features of the northern hemisphere in July 2017

Air Temperature.

In the first decade of July European territory of Russia (ETR) kept the May-June colds. From north-west to Krasnodar district the new records of air temperature minimums were registered. The average decade temperatures became below the norm by 2-3°. Slowly but surely a warmth started to penetrate here only since the second decade. Initially the air in south of Russia in steppe areas of Northern Caucasus, in Low Volga and Black sea coast was heated up to 30-35°, and in some places it was more than 40°, in the end of decade the heat dominated in north areas of ETR, exceeded in Arkhangelsk region and Komi republic +30°. The resume of the second decade became the temperature norm in the most part of European territory, in the south and north it was exceeded by 2-3° and 2-6° respectively. At last, in the third decade all European territory of Russia, except Karelia, met the warmth. In the south it reached the record values, in some places exceeding 40°, and in the noticeable part of ETR the average decade temperatures exceeded the norms by 2-3° and more.

 

The main weather and climate features of the northern hemisphere in June 2017

Air Temperature.

An abnormally cold weather was in the European territory of Russia (ETR) from Barents sea to Low Volga area for the second month in a row. The end of the spring and beginning of the summer has become the coldest here since 1994, and last June is the second coldest in XXI century. The first coldest June was in 2003. The average monthly air temperatures in June 2017 in ETR are below the norm by 2-3°. Even in the end of the month in some areas of Central Federal District the day temperature decreased to +1…+3°, there were the night frosts. Heavier frosts were in the north of ETR in republic of Karelia, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk districts (to -5°). In some points new temperature minimum records have been set.
The opposite situation had place in Siberia, in the east of Urals and west of Yakutia. Here was the heat in June. The most time of the month the temperature was in diapason of +25…+35°, in some days it reached +40°. Such high temperatures became the record in a lot of areas of Krasnoyarsk, Altai and Transbaikalia districts, republics of Altai, Buryat, Kemerovo and Irkutsk areas. In Siberia Federal District the last June became the second hottest on the record in this area, the first hottest one was June of 2012. The average monthly air temperatures in this region exceeded the norm by 2-5°.
In Far East of Russia in some days it was also record heat (republic of Yakutia, Magadan district), however, the average monthly air temperature was close to the norm.