The key weather and climate features in the northern hemisphere in March 2017
Air Temperature.
Average March air temperature of 2017 in the Russian Federation is the highest on the record, i.e. on the last 127 years. It exceeded the former record of March 1990 by 1.5°. The first three months of the recent year are also the warmest ones on the record.
In March 2017 the highest average monthly air temperatures were reached in Ural, Siberia Federal Districts and in the north of Far East Federal Districts. In Central Federal District and in the south of Far East Federal District they have got the second rank amongst the highest values, in the North-West Federal District – the third one.
During the month in many regions of the country the new temperature maximums were reached, including the monthly absolute maximums. The air temperature norms were exceeded countrywide, in the centre – by 4-5°, in Urals, Siberia and in the north of Far East – by 7-12°. Sometimes, in Kamchatka region daily maximums were recorded during five-eight days in succession. Never before in Russia there were so large average monthly air temperature anomalies at vast territory.
The key weather and climate features in the northern hemisphere in February 2017
Air temperature.
At the beginning of February in the central and southern areas of the ETR it was chilly, in some places cold weather, which came here in the end of January. Air temperature anomalies in the first decade reached -3.5°. Only in Russian North it was abnormally warm. In the middle of the month this warm sector extended and captured the most part of the Central region and Volga area, casted away the abnormal cold far to the south, to Crimea and North Caucasus, where the temperature anomalies took place (to -3°) in the second decade of the month. In the third decade the early spring warmth came almost to the all territory of ETR. Temperature anomalies reached +6…+8°. In Central Russia, Volga area, in the west of the country and in the North Caucasus the new temperature maximums were recorded. Only in the north the temperature at that moment corresponded to the norm or was relatively higher. If in the beginning and middle of the month in the Russian North temperatures reached the maximum values, in 20th the frosts came here up to -40°.