Weather In Russia 2019 - 2024

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More typical of the end of April. And the possibility of snow.

Cold continues in Moscow.

For almost a week, Moscow remains dominated by cold weather. The lag in temperature is 3-5 degrees. A cold gusty wind blows, it rains regularly.

We warned that the cooling would be protracted. Moreover, from Thursday cooling will intensify.

The average daily temperature drops to + 8°C, this is the criterion from which the central heating is switched on. The weather will still be unstable and windy.

At night, slight frosts are not excluded. Daytime temperature will remain at + 10 … + 15°C. Such values ​​are more typical for the end of April. Warm weather will begin only on May 25.

https://www.gismeteo.ru/news/weather/pogoda-v-moskve-holodnaya-izolyaciya-prodolzhaetsya/
http://www.hmn.ru/index.php?index=1&ts=200518101710
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Still cold in St. Petersburg

Since the middle of last week, cold weather has established in the Leningrad Region with an average daily temperature of 4-6 degrees below normal. Last weekend, this steady cold trend continued.

For a few more days, Petersburgers should not hope for warming. Until next weekend at night 2…4°C, during the day around +10°C. In some areas of the region there is a possibility of precipitation turning into wet snow.
http://www.hmn.ru/index.php?index=1&ts=200518102805

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Where are the biggest snowdrifts in Russia?

In mid-November, the largest snow cover in Russia, according to weather stations, was recorded in the northern Krasnoyarsk Territory. The leader is the Istok Difficult Access Station (TDS), located in the Snezhnogorsk region with a score of 76 cm (2½ feet), the second place is occupied by the village of Svetlogorsk – 68 cm (more than 2 ft). snow cover reached 55-57 cm.

Some territories in the Irkutsk and Magadan regions have not been left behind. Here, the height of the snow cover has also exceeded the 50 cm mark, as, for example, in Khamar-Daban, Irkutsk region (58 cm).

http://www.hmn.ru/index.php?index=1&ts=201118144007

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Meteorologist calls it ‘a snow Armageddon, a snow apocalypse.”
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Heavy snowfalls have buried Moscow, disrupting transport, delaying flights and making it tough even to walk, braving strong winds and temperatures of minus 15C (5F).


 
The snowfall started late Thursday and was expected to end on Sunday. Russia’s emergency service advised people to stay away from trees, warning of winds gusts of 18 meters per second (40 mph).

“It’s a real snowstorm, a snow Armageddon, a snow apocalypse. This is not a practice alert, but a combat alert,” warned Evgeny Tishkovets from the weather service Fobos before the snowfall began.

By early Saturday, snow depth in the city reached 56 cms (22 inches), Fobos said. This was close to exceeding a record high of 60 cm for accumulated snow on a Feb. 13, it said.

On Friday Moscow saw record snowfall for a Feb. 12, breaking the previous record set for the date in 1973, Russian news agencies reported.

There have been multiple flight delays at the airports in Moscow, a city of more than 12 million people. Unusually for a weekend, traffic was jammed in many places.

Around 60,000 people were working to clear the streets, the Moscow mayor’s office said.

See photos:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-weather-moscow-snowfall-idUSKBN2AD0DC

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Huge masses of snow have accumulated on the slopes of Altai, at the Sheregesh resort there are practically no places to stay, everything is booked!
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Extreme avalanche danger in Russia

There is a long weekend of vacations ahead and for sure many are planning to go to ski resorts.

We warn you – the danger of avalanche is now extreme across the country!

In Sakhalin, it is planned in 9 regions, according to the regional avalanche center of Sakhalin UGMS:

in Uglegorsky, Makarovsky, Tomarinsky, Kholmsky, Dolinsky, Anivsky, Nevelsky, Korsakovsky and in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk itself.

Huge masses of snow have accumulated on the slopes of Altai, at the Sheregesh resort there are practically no places to stay, everything is booked!


 
This means that there are many skiers and, among them, many freeride fans – that is, off-piste skiing. Often, they are the ones who “cut” the avalanches.

Well, the most dangerous situation is now in the Caucasus.

In the mountains of the Krasnodar Territory and Adygea, the danger of an avalanche exceeds 2500 m.!

In the mountains of Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia and Dagestan, this mark is lowest – at 1500 m.

The fact is that the descent of the mass of snow accumulated from the slope is usually caused by climatic reasons: a sudden change in weather (including changes in atmospheric pressure, air humidity), rain, heavy snowfalls.

And that is the weather, according to our predictions, next weekend in the North Caucasus.

Чрезвычайная лавиноопасность

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January temperatures in March. In some areas, the temperature dropped to -40°C (-40°F) and below.

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The north of European territory has already established frosts of minus thirty degrees, and in several cities on the night of the first spring holiday the temperature dropped to record lows.

In addition, to the already record low values, frosts intensified even further from the Kola Peninsula to Vorkuta.


 
In the Murmansk region, the record holder was the Krasnoshchelye settlement, where the temperature dropped to -34.5°C.

In the Arkhangelsk region, the city of Mezen, located northeast of the regional center, stood out with a new daily low is now -31.9°C.

In the Republic of Komi, the temperature record was set in Pechora with a low temperature of -38.1°C.

On Tuesday night, the unusual cold persisted in northern Europe. In the Vorkuta area, the temperature dropped to -40°C (-40°F) and in some areas even colder than that.

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https://www.sott.net/article/451535-Russian-capital-breaks-140-year-old-record-during-surge-of-summerlike-warmth
On Tuesday, the high temperature in Moscow, Russia's capital and largest city, surged to 22.6 C (73 F), making it the highest temperature on April 13 in at least 140 years of observations, Reuters reported.

On Wednesday, another record was set as the temperature rose to 22 C (72 F). This broke the previous record of 20.8 (69.4 F) last reached in 1962, according to Russia's Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring.

High temperatures in Moscow in the lower 20s C (lower 70s F) typically occur during the beginning of June.

The records were broken amid a stretch of warmth that took hold of a large portion of western Russia.

"Temperatures across a large portion of western and central Russia have been running above normal since about April 11," said AccuWeather Meteorologist Rob Richards.

The warmth on the region peaked from April 12 to April 14, with high temperatures 6-13 degrees C (10-20 degrees F) above normal.

The warmth also extended into western and northern parts of Siberia where temperatures have been above normal for much of the month.

It has been an unusually mild April across western and northern Siberia. Amderma, a community located on Russia's northern coast with the Kara Sea, has had temperatures above normal every day this month. On April 8, temperatures reached 2.8 C (37 F). While it does not sound very warm, temperatures typically remain between -18 C (zero F) for a low and -11 C (13 F) for a high on that date.

"A large area of high pressure has been in control of the weather which has led to the string of warm weather," Richards said. "This is expected to continue through the weekend before temperatures slowly begin to trend closer to normal."

The normal high temperatures in Moscow for this time of the year is around 11 C (52 F).

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Fortunately, the incident didn't cause any injuries or deaths, with its impact limited to waterfront damage.

A massive ice drift in the Amur River has crashed into the coastline in the Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk, ripping down a concrete-reinforced metal barrier and nearly crushing passersby who had gathered to watch.

Dramatic footage of the incident was captured by local residents armed with cellphones, with huge slabs of ice seen pushing up onto the embankment.



Video shot from above the area showed ice drifts literally hundreds of feet long moving toward the shore at high speed, crashing against one another, forming ice chunks and forcing part of the floe to spew onto the shore.
https://www.sott.net/article/451856-Gigantic-ice-drift-invades-city-nearly-crushes-passersby-in-Russias-far-east
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Dust storm in Astrakhan, Russia
A giant wall of orange dust whipped up by strong winds has swept through southern Russia, painting the skies an eerie orange color while the gusts destroyed property and even injured some locals.

The storm ripped through Astrakhan Region, Republic of Kalmykia, known for its vast swathes of steppe, as well as Dagestan in the North Caucasus on Wednesday, wreaking havoc along the way.

Videos from Astrakhan Region on the Volga River showed deserted streets covered in thick orange mist and people running for safety. Some online commentators compared the striking images to those taken by rovers on the surface of Mars.
https://www.sott.net/article/453107-Apocalyptic-scenes-as-massive-dust-storm-turns-skies-orange-in-southern-Russia

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Floods in Shilkinsky district Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, July 202
While northern areas of Russia's Far East Region are fighting wildfires, territories further south have seen ongoing floods which have forced almost 4,000 people to evacuate their homes.

In a statement of 24 July 2021, Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) of the Russian Federation Viktor Yatsutsenko said flooding had affected 99 settlements across Zabaykalsky Krai (Territory), Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast (Region). As many as 2,355 residential buildings, more than 5,000 household plots, 76 low-water bridges and 408 road sections have been damaged. Furthermore, preventive purposes, almost 4,000 people were evacuated.

Most recently, flooding has affected areas in Zabaykalsky Krai, where Shilkinsky district was the hardest hit. The region's EMERCOM office said 2,500 people were affected by floods in the city of Shilka, Shilkinsky district after a sharp rise in the level of the Kiya River following heavy rain from 21 to 22 July. Hundreds of homes and plots have been flooded.

https://www.sott.net/article/455942-Thousands-evacuate-floods-in-far-east-of-Russia

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SCHOOL CANCELLED IN YAKUTIA, RUSSIA AS TEMPERATURES PLUNGE TO -50C (-58F)
Pupils across at least ten villages in the remote Russian region of Yakutia have been ordered to stay at home and study via distance learning as the mercury outside touched -50C (-58F), reports rt.com.

On Monday, November 22, the local government instructed 700 students to stay at home after a low of -50C (-58F) was recorded in the village of Kylaiy, in the Ust-Aldan district of Yakutia province — not too far from the region’s largest city of Yakutsk.

Other notable lows in the province include the -45C (-49F) in Batamay; the -44.8C (-48.6F) in Kerbo, Central Siberia; the -39.6C (-39.3F) in Verkhoyansk.
https://electroverse.net/temps-plunge-to-58f-in-russia-rare-snows-hit-argentina-antarctica-holds-unusually-cold/

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Exceptionally cold weather has gripped the Russian city of St. Petersburg this week.

The chill has been so severe that all-time records have been tumbling: Monday morning’s low of almost -21C (-5.8F) broke a daily benchmark set some 128 years ago, way back in 1893, according to meteorologist Mikhail Leus from the Fobos weather center.

“Today, St. Petersburg set a new daily cold weather record. Temperatures in the Northern Capital fell to minus 20.9 degrees, which is 0.4 degrees lower than on the same day back in 1893,” Leus wrote in a Facebook post.

https://electroverse.net/st-petersburgs-breaks-1893-record-sweden-dec-low-alaskas-coldest-nov-in-80-yrs-grimsvotn-alert/

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Much of transcontinental Russia has been holding exceptionally cold of late — from the far east to the far west, records have been falling, and now, so has the snow…

According to Phobos meteorologist Yevgeny Tishkovets, Moscow has busted multiple December snowfall records.

Back on Dec 7, the heaviest snowstorm in 72 years struck the Russian capital — not since 1949 had more snow settled this early in the season.

Then we have the accumulations over the weekend (Dec 11-12), which included the biggest single-day dumping since 1993.

And most recently, on Mon, Dec 13, we hear that 20+% of the city’s monthly snow has now fallen, thanks to largest December drop for the date since 1989.
https://electroverse.net/moscow-breaks-snow-records-tremendous-snow-totals-hit-sierras-snowy-greece/

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It’s been exceptionally cold and snowy across the majority of transcontinental Russia over the past 6-or-so weeks, with 90+% of the nation’s land mass blanketed in snow since late-October (Rutgers GSL).

Moscow has been copping heavy snow of late, too.

It has been snowing constantly in the capital since Sunday.

As a result, accumulations have built to 22 cm (8.7 inches) — one of the highest levels on record for the time of year, and one that approaches the highest totals (for mid-Dec) in books dating back to the 1800s: the 33 cm (13 inches) from 1919 (the Centennial Minimum).

More snow is in the forecast.

Russian weather site hmn.ru says there’s a chance Moscow will rival that historic benchmark: “Southern cyclones attack the central regions of Russia with maniacal persistence,” reads the opening line of an article dated Dec 16.

“Moscow barely has time to clear itself of one snowfall, as the next whirlwind is on its way,” continues hmr.ru. “The most intense snowfall will take place in Moscow on Saturday afternoon and Sunday night … By Monday, Dec 19, the snow depth at VDNH may exceed 30 cm, which will be a record for this day!”

Moscow’s official weather station (VDNKh) has received 28+cm (11 inches) by Dec 19 on just two separate occasion: 1985 and 1993 (both around solar minimums).

https://electroverse.co/snow-moscow-1-meter-in-kazakhstan-tasmanias-coldest-dec-temp-uk-warnings-us-historic-arctic-blast/

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Extreme, record-slaying cold is persisting across Siberia as well as the wider Asian continent.

Over the weekend, a remarkable -62.4C (-80.3F) was officially registered in Tongulakh. This is a new all-time low for the locale, and also marks Russia’s coldest January temperature since 1982.
https://electroverse.co/snow-south-korea-russia-coldest-jan-temp-arctic-air-hits-europe-cooling-australia/

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To Europe’s east, transcontinental Russia continues to face fierce, record-setting chills.

Tongulah has, for the third time this week, bested its all-time low temperature benchmark.

With a minimum of -62.7C (-80.9F) registered during the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Siberian village has again usurped its all time low and has again marked the coldest January temperature in all of Russia since 1982.

The historic cold –and resulting gas shortages– continue to impact much of Asia and the Middle East — as discussed yesterday:
https://electroverse.co/arctic-air-encases-europe-russias-freeze-record-snow-arizona-nevada-delhi-hadcrut-fraud/

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The northern federal subjects of Russia have been holding anomalously-cold of late.

Russia’s first -20C (-4F) of the season has come early this year.

Tuesday’s low in Delyankir bottomed-out at -21C (-5.8F):




Elsewhere, an unusual -19.9C (-3.8F) was registered in Oymyakon; -13.1C (8.4F) in Verkhoyansk.
https://electroverse.info/cool-sept-alaska-first-russia-freezes-little-ice-age/
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A few weeks ago now, on September 23, Verkhoyansk posted a low of -10.1C (13.8F) which made for the town’s earliest -10C in almost 15 years, since the Sept 17 of 2008 (solar minimum of cycle 24).

Across northern Siberia, in particular, ‘blues’ have been the dominant feature since the onset of fall, hinting at a potentially harsh winter to come.

While shifting eastwards, across the Bering Straight and through Alaska, a new seasonal low has been observed in Canada, too: Tuesday’s low in Eureka, Nunavut plunged to -27.3C (-17.1F):

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Following yesterday’s report that 90% of Russia is blanketed in snow, low temperatures are also proving early and pervasive.

“The Russian winter is taking its course,” reports gismeteo.ru.

 As early as October 11 Russia posted its first -20C (-4F) of the season, and by October 17 endured its first -30C (-22F).

And now the continental cold has reached a new benchmark: -40C (-40F).

Last weekend, in the Tuguro-Chumikansky district of the Khabarovsk Territory, the mercury crashed to -40C. This weather is considered “very cold” even in the depths of winter let alone in early-November, even by Russia’s standards.

The cold wasn’t a one-hit-wonder, either; on November 7 the Tomponsky ulus of Yakutia also posted -40C readings:
https://electroverse.info/east-asia-freezes-40c-hits-russia-as-heavy-snow-impacts-majority-of-mongolia/

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December across much of Russia has proven historically cold, with the east, in particular, seeing little letup.

Record temperatures have set in across the likes of Sakhalin, with the average high coming in some 10C below the norm.

In the Tymovsky and Smirnykhovsky districts –for example– lows of -33C (-27.4F) and -36C (-32.8F) have been logged, respectively. While the town of Okha, located in Okhinsky district, posted a record -31.9C (-25.4F) on Dec 26 which comfortably bested the previous low of -30C (-22F) set in 1946.

Frigid continental air will continue to flow into Sakhalin for the remainder of 2023, with more of the same forecast into January.

Looking west, the city of Yekaterinburg finds itself “buried under record snowdrifts,” as reported by gismeteo.ru.

Heavy snow on December 26 broke a daily record that had stood since the Russian Revolution of 1917. And by the morning of December 27 the city’s snow depth had reached 53 cm (21 inches) — such drifts (exceeding half a meter) hadn’t been seen for 25+ years.

https://electroverse.info/russias-lows-snows-china-cold-record-snow-scotland-antarcticas-frigid-ssw-event/

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This winter in Moscow will be remembered for its frosts and record snow.

On the morning of Feb 19, the snow at Moscow's VDNKh weather station stood at 67 cm (23.4 inches), which is more than twice the norm. In Balchug, snow depth read 59 cm (23.2"); in the MSU area, 70 cm (27.6"); and in Konkovo, 80 cm (31.5").



Additional snowfall is on the cards for Moscow mid-week, potentially returning the depth to record-challenging levels (set 1994).

https://electroverse.substack.com/p/deep-snow-persists-in-moscow-6-feet

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“We are really at the critical frost threshold for apple trees and pears” said Mathieu Tissot, producer of the Tissot orchards in Haute-Savoie, France following several below-freezing nights.

Tissot orchards produce 1,600 tonnes of apples and pears each year, but recent frosts have threatened that yield. For the past week or so, record cold has hit.

"We had three nights including a very significant night where we went down to -2.3C (27.9F),” said Mathieu, "the critical frost threshold for apple trees and pears".

Mathieu said gusty winds have helped his buds to some degree (wind reduces the formation of frost from radiative cooling), but now the breeze has died down and the cold has intensified. "We had to start the fight again last night," he said.

In scenes repeated across France, wind machines are being used to propel hot air around orchard and vineyards. "We spend every 8 to 10 minutes in the same place to allow the plant to dry," explained Mathieu.

More traditional 'frost fires' have been lit up and down the country.

Below is footage of a vineyard in Chablis:
https://electroverse.substack.com/p/frost-damage-reported-from-france