MAIN WEATHER AND CLIMATE TRAITS IN THE NORTHEN HEMISPHERE AS OF JANUARY 2022

Air temperature

The New Year 2022 in Russia started with abnormally warm weather in most of the country. In the first decade of January, daily temperature maxima were updated in the Volgograd, Astrakhan and Rostov Regions and the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories in the south of the ETR, as well as in the South Urals and the south-west of Western Siberia, in Yakutia and in the north-east of the country. In Chukotka, the midwinter air heated up to above 0° sometimes. The air temperature averaged for the first decade exceeded the normal value by 4 to 10 degrees in Kolyma, Chukotka, Kamchatka and the most of ETR; yet, abnormally cold weather prevailed in some other areas at the same time, namely, in the Arctic territories from the Kola Peninsula to Taimyr, in the south of the Far East and in the south-east of Yakutia. There, the temperature anomalies for the first decade were -2…-4°.
Everything changed in the second decade. Arctic colds dashed into Russia, the decade-averaged temperatures almost everywhere from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean measured two to six degrees below the normal values, and anomalous heat survived in the south of Siberia only (in Khakassia, and in the southern regions of Buryatia and of the Irkutsk Region).
In the third decade, heat returned to Russia. All around the country save for its north-east, the decade-averaged temperature anomalies were positive, with up to +10…15° in the north.

MAIN WEATHER AND CLIMATE TRAITS IN THE NORTHEN HEMISPHERE AS OF DECEMBER 2021

Air Temperature

In the first decade of December, the distribution of decade-averaged air temperature over the territory of Russia was of zonal character. The weather was abnormally cold in the north (with the anomalies down to -5…-7°), but abnormally warm in the central part and in the south (with the anomalies up to +5° in European and to +6…10° in Asian territories). The thermometer readings sometimes dropped below -30° in the Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kirov and Kostroma Regions, below -40° in the Kostroma Region and the Republic of Komi, and below -60° in the north of Yakutia. At the same time, the record-breaking heat was observed in the Voronezh, Belgorod, Astrakhan and Tyumen Regions, in the Republics of Mari El, Crimea, Bashkiria and Udmurtia, as well as in the Trans-Baikal and Primorye Territories.