Warm and dry weather is not expected in Bashkortostan in next few days – Bashkir Met Office

UFA, 3 July 2017. /Bashinform News Agency, Gulfiya Akulova/. Residents of Bashkortostan should not expect a stable dry pattern of weather in the first ten days of July, experts of the republican Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Office inform.

In the first 10 days of July, warm weather from 22 to 27 C is predicted. "It will not be dry, in some places with heavy rains and thunderstorms," the head chief of Bashkir Met Office Vilora Gorokholskaya reported in an interview with Rossiya-24.

For the last 35 years of meteorological observations there have been eight cold Junes like the past in the republic, the weather forecasters note. But the first month of this year summer overtook all previous ones by the amount of precipitation. Three monthly precipitation norms fell in the northwestern and western regions, two and a half norms in Ufa. On June 28, a heavy rain hit Ufa; the meteorological city station recorded a rainfall of 24 mm/h.

According to the information of the Bashkir Met Office, all the rivers of the republic are currently in their limits. Rainwater floods did not happen, but the river levels are 10-60 cm above long-term average annuals. Fluctuations in the river levels reach up to 40 cm per day.

According to the preliminary forecast, in August in the region the average monthly air temperature and monthly rainfall are expected to be close to normal.