Head of the National Hydrometeorological Service of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (MAPR) of Azerbaijan Umaira Tagieva explained the cooling in the country in recent days by Siberian anticyclone.
“From the first decade of December, synoptic processes corresponding to the winter season are observed on the territory of Azerbaijan. Clockwork and cold weather prevails. In the same period last year, the air temperature was much higher, the rains were only two days. This year the movement of a very cold Siberian anticyclone that covered central Russia, to the southeast also influenced the weather in our country, causing a decrease in temperature to 4.7 degrees compared to the climatic norm. Atmospheric pressure was 777 mm Hg, which is much higher than the norm, ”said it haqqin.az Tagieva.
She drew attention to the fact that during this period the coldest day in Baku and on the Absheron Peninsula was recorded on December 5, the minimum air temperature was 2 degrees of heat, and in the Shahdag – up to 17 degrees of frost.
“For comparison, according to observations in recent years, the minimum air temperature in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula for December 2016 amounted to 4.2 degrees of frost. Over the past 8 days of December, the amount of precipitation in some areas exceeded the monthly norm,” – reported by the head of the service.
It is expected that until the end of the week in the capital, cloudy, sometimes rainy and cold weather will remain in the capital, she continued. “Mostly the eastern regions of the country will be under the influence of a cold anticyclone from Kazakhstan, so the weather will be cloudy, at times precipitation is expected,” Tagieva said.
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