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

Air Temperature

The heat that spread over the north-west of Russia at the end of June still persisted there in the first decade of July. New daily temperature maxima as high as 30° and above were set in Karelia and in the Leningrad and Pskov Regions. Very warm weather came to the central and southern regions of the ETR as well, and new unprecedented maxima were also recorded in the Smolensk and Kaluga Regions as well as in the Krasnodar Territory. Yet, cold nights with new record-breaking minima were observed at the same time in the Arkhangelsk Region and the Komi Republic in the north.
In the second decade, cool weather with the temperatures either close to or somewhat lower than normal prevailed over most of the ETR but was defeated by warmth in the north where new positive extremes were recorded in some places. As for the third decade, the temperatures noticeably above normal persevered in the north and came back to the central regions again.
In the Urals and in Siberia, the weather oscillated between abnormally warm and cool. It was very cold at the end of the second decade in the south of Western Siberia: there, new temperature minima were even recorded in the Kemerovo Region. But eventually, the monthly averages of air temperature in this area were close to normal.
MAIN WEATHER AND CLIMATE TRAITS IN THE NORTHEN HEMISPHERE AS OF JUNE 2022

Air Temperature

In the first decade of June, abnormally warm weather in the ETR was only observed in the north (in the Murmansk and Arkhangelsk Regions, and in Komi Republic) where the anomalies of decade-averaged temperatures reached +4-7°, and in the south (in the Crimea, in the Krasnodar Territory and in the republics of the North Caucasus) where these anomalies amounted to +3-5°. In Dagestan, the thermometer readings rose to the 35° mark sometimes, resulting in new daily temperature maxima in a number of locations such as Makhachkala and Derbent. In the rest of the territory, the air temperature was approximately normal in the first decade and normal or somewhat higher than that in the second one. Notably, the said "higher" values were measured in the same regions as in the first decade, i.e., in the north and south of the ETR, even though the anomalies themselves became significantly weaker. The third decade started roughly with the same weather, but in its last five days, the weather became hot in the north-west of Russia, with the temperatures up to 30° or higher observed and new daily maxima recorded in Karelia as well as in the Leningrad, Novgorod, Pskov and Murmansk Regions. Yet at the same time, very cold air came to the north of the ETR as well as to the Volga and Cis-Ural Regions where the record-breaking temperature minima were reported in the republics of Komi and Udmurtia and in the Kostroma, Vladimir, Samara and Orenburg Regions: there, the average temperature in the third decade turned out to be 3-5° less than normal.
In Siberia and in the Far East, the weather was generally warmer than usual. Only at the beginning of the month, cold weather prevailed in the south of Western Siberia and in Altai. New daily temperature minima were set in the Omsk, Kemerovo and Novosibirsk Regions as well as in the republics of Tyva and Khakassia. In the third decade, the same happened in the Magadan Region. For the rest of the time, the anomalies of decade-averaged temperatures reached +5-9° in some places. The weather in Yakutia was extremely hot: the temperatures up to +35° and above were observed there for several days in a row, or up to +30° and above beyond the Arctic Circle.