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

Air Temperature

Abnormal heat that expanded from the Baltic Sea to the Sea of Okhotsk at the end of October persisted and even intensified in the first decade of November. New daily maxima of air temperature were recorded in the north-west of the ETR, in the Russian North and in the Arctic. In the second decade, this abnormal heat in the ETR became weaker, and in the third one, it faded away everywhere excluding the southern regions. At times, new temperature maxima were measured in the Crimea, Astrakhan Region and Northern Caucasus. In the second half of the month, the unprecedented cold weather came to the north of the country, as well as to the Urals and the territories to the east of them, the frosts reaching -35…-45°, or below -50° in Yakutia. But ultimately, the competition between the heat and the cold ended in a tie: the monthly-averaged air temperatures were close to normal in most of Russia, below normal in the Ural Federal District and partly in the north of the Far East, and higher than normal – noticeably higher indeed – in the Arctic and in the south of the Far East where November 2022 was among the Top Ten warmest in the entire history of meteorological observations, i.e., since 1891.
This autumn in Russia can be considered abnormally warm even though the average temperature in most of the country was close to normal, against the background of positive or negative anomalies in some or other areas. But the weather in the Arctic, in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and in Yakutia was by as much as 2-4° warmer than usual.
The temperature averaged for the past eleven months was the second highest in the ranking list since 1891. The temperature forecast for December suggests that the year 2022 would not likely be warmer than the current leader 2020.

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

Air Temperature

The weather in the ETR, especially in its eastern regions, was somewhat warmer than usual in the first decade of October. Transient colds came at the time of transition from the first to second decade and forced the air temperature to drop below zero in some places. But in the second decade, the warmth came back and was most intensive in the Russian North where new daily maxima of air temperatures were reported en masse. This anomalous warmth persisted over the whole ETR until the end of the month, accompanied with new record-breaking temperatures in the north-east (in Karelia and in the Leningrad Region).
In the Urals, the temperatures remained above-normal for almost the entire month. In the south of Siberia and of the Far East, the weather was abnormally cold at the beginning of the month, with new daily temperature minima recorded in a number of locations. In the Khabarovsk and Trans-Baikal Territories, the decade-averaged temperature in the first decade turned out to be 2-3° lower than normal. Similar to the ETR, the east of Russia in the second half of the month was hit by anomalous heat that begot new records established both in the north and in the south of Siberia, as well as in Yakutia: in these areas, the decade-averaged temperatures were 8-10° higher than normal.