New Zealand Local Weather Forum
Weather Discussion => International => Topic started by: Mark on February 18, 2019, 05:37:05 PM
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Average daily temperatures running 12-18°C below normal.
On the first day of the last winter month, the average daily air temperature was below the climatic norm by more than 16 degrees C.
In the Irkutsk region, on the evening of 2 February, the air cooled to -48°C, in the Novosibirsk region to -44°C, Kemerovo to -42°C, and Tomsk to -45°, in Evenkia to -53°C.
In northern Siberia, frost has hit new record. In Salekhard, February 1 was -47.1°C, the previous record of -45.3°C was set in 1967.
Record lows were also recorded in the Khanty-Mansiysk district: in Laryak the temperature dropped to a record -46.7°C, besting the previous record of -45°C set in 1967), in Ugut -45.8°C, lower than the previous record by 1.7 degrees and also for the year 1967. In Novokuznetsk (Kemerovo region) the mercury dropped to -34°C, the previous record of -33.2°C was observed in 2012 .
On Saturday, February 2, the daily temperature in Salekhard, dropped to -47.3°C. The previous record low of -44.5°C was observed in 2001.
In the coming days, abnormally cold weather with an average daily temperature below the climatic norm of 15 degrees or more will persist in the Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansiysk districts in the Tomsk region.
Severe frosts are expected in the Omsk region and southern Tyumen. In the region of Irkutsk, severe frost (temperature -40: -45°C, in some places down to -53°C); Irkutsk is also abnormally cold, with average daily air temperature 8-14 below the norm. In Evenkia -50 ..- 55°C, in the central regions of the Territory of Krasnoyarsk up to -50°C; in Krasnoyarsk abnormally cold weather with an average daily temperature of 12-18°C below normal.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/02/polluted-black-snow-sparks-health-fears-siberia-190218080556067.html
Residents of Prokopyevsk feared for their health on Sunday as blackened snow allegedly caused by a local coal processing factory covered the Siberian town.
Some expressed concern over children's health as playgrounds and schoolyards were covered in the dirty snow. Others suspected it could be toxic.
The town is among others affected in the Siberian region of Kuzbass, which is home to 2.6 million people and one of the world's largest coal fields.
The cause of the discolouration is allegedly coal dust that fell onto the snow from local processing plants