USSR WEATHRE AND CROP BULLETINS, 25-31 MAY 1951

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• Publication Date: June 25, 1951
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CLASSIFICATION S-E-C-R-E-T
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD P:O.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Ecoaomic. - Weather, crops
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
NVI'ItftE
PUBLISH'~D Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 25 - ?1 May 1951
LANGUAGE
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SOURCE Sotaialisticheskoye Zemledeliye.
DATE OF
INFO~..~tATION 1951
DATE DIST. d?.,S Jun 1951
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVP.LUATED INFORMATION
USSR WEATRER AND CROP BULLETIlVS,
25 - 31 MAY 1951
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On 24 May, the weather continued cool in the European USSR. The coolness
spread to s11 southern areas and all Volga regions. The weather was very warm
only in the southern and central Urals.
Zn the areas north of a line running through Leningrad, Vologda, and
Syktyvkar, air temperature at 1200 varied between 4 and 6 degrees, Noon tem-
perature was A, degrees (all degrees cent?igrade)in Kirov and Riga, 9 in Moscow,
10 in Gor'kiy, 11 in Yazan', 14 in all Middle Volga regions from Kuybyshev to
Kamyshin. in the central regions south of Moscow, and in Belorussia, 16 in the
Ukraine, Moldavia, and along the lower Volga, 18-19 in the Crimea and Kuban',
2~ in the Sverdlovsk area, and 25 in the Chkalov area.
During the first 12 hours of 24 May, precipitation fell in moat areas of
the northeast (west t~f the Urals), in the North Caucasus, and in the eastern
and western Ukraine,
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During the 24-hour period of 23 May, precipitation fell in Moldavia, in
the southern and western regions of the Ukraine, in the Kuban', the foothills
of the North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, and in some regions of the northern
European USSR.
Air temperature 4ropped somewhat below that of the preceding day in the
mranscaucasus. It was only 18 degrees at noon in Tbilisi. Rs.ins fell locally.
Very warm weather prevails generally in Siberia and the Far East.
The thermometer. registered 31 de,greao at noon in the Tashkent area of
Central Aaia, k0 degrees in the Ashkhabad area.
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There was almost no change in the weather of 25 May as compared with that
of the preceding day. It remained hot, and almost no precipitation fell in
Central Asia and in most areas of Kazakhstan, Siberia, and the Far East. In
the Transcaucasus, the weather remained moderately warm. It was comparatively
cool in most of the European USSRy rain fell in some areas.
The highest air temperature at 1200 was observed in the Tashkent area,
where it was 34 degrees
During the first 12 hears of 25 May, rain fell in most of Belon.issia and
in. adjoining areas of the Baltic republics and the RSFSR, in the eastern Ukraine,
and in the Ode?sa, Simferopol', and Kuybyshev areas? Snow fell +.n the extreme
northeastern part of the European USSR.
During the 24-hour period of 24 May, considerable precipitation fell on the
Black Sea coaot of the Caucasus, in the Kuban', and in sou?hern Rostov Oblast.
Light rains fell in Stavropol', along the lower Volga, east of the Volga, in
Belorussia, in the western and southern Ukraine, in Moldavia, and in the Crimea.
In the Asiatic USSR, precipitation fell only in some areas of southeastern
Kazakhstan, in Kirgizia, in some areas of West Siberia adjolning the Urals, in
the Irkutsk ax=a, and in Yakutia~.
27 May 1951
On 26 Me.,y, the weather continued as cool as on previous days throughout the
European tl?SSF, Fain fell in many areas. At 1200 the thermometer registered 2
degrees in tlst'-Tsilaie, 3 is Arkhan3el'sk, 5 i.n S,yktyvkar, 6 in Petrozavodsk, and
9 ir. Kirov, Vologda, Leningrad, Velikiye Luki, Minak, and Riga. It was no warmer
at tisis hour in the central cherno~em zone. Throughout the rest of the Et+xopean
USSR the temperature at 1200 was 11-12 degrees. Temperatures of 14-16 degrees
were r?corded only in the extreme southern Ukraine, in the Crimea, in the North
Caucasus, along the lower Volga, and east of the Volga.
On 25 May, heavy rains fell in eastern Belorussia, in the southern Ukraine,
North Caucasus, the Crimea, and in Kuybyshev and Saratov oblasts. During the
first 12 hours of 26 May, rains were observed throughout the central chernozem.
zone, locally in the North Caucasus, the Middle Volga region, and in the north-
west,
It was cold. and rain fell in areas of Siberia adjoining the Urals. In the
area around and east of Omsk, ver,/ warm weather Favorable to the growth of agri-
cultural crops continued generally. Noon air temperature rose to 26-28 degrees.
Similar weather prevailed in Kazakhstan.
In Central Asia, noon temperatures ranged between 30 and 34 degrees.
On 28 May, a large part of the European USSR had cloudy weather which
cleared up considerably; no rain fell. Heavier rains fall only along the middle
Volga, in Ryazan, Tambov, and Penza oblasts, and in Mordov ASSR. Locally, pre-
cipitation totaled lu-r( mtiaimeters in these areas. Ligu~ rnius 'rritii t+u'iii;uei-
storms occurred in the western Ukraine.
Temperatures rose generally. Duuing the day, they varied between 12 and 17
degrees almost everywhere between Arkhangelsk and Rostov-on-Don. Noon tempera-
tures in Kishinev, Odessa, Simferopol', and Krasnodar ranged between 21 and 24
degrees, _
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Frequent and gvlte heavy rains which fell during the last days have created
tavoraolP growing condi.t:ious for all agrictLltural crops
It became cooler 'in West Siberia,. Daytime temperatures ranged between 12
and 16 degrees in Omsk, Barnaul, and Irkutsko Snow fell in northern Krasnoyarsk
Kr av. dot. we.~.th.er continued in 'Pransbaykal and tb.e Far Essto At Rlagoveshchensl:-
or-.A*,~us the tempexature was 31 degrees'
Noon temperature in Central Asia was around 30 degrees Rain fell locally
in T~.:rkme.~ia
n., as M?~_ moder~Ltely warm and overcast weather with rain prevailed through-
ArkhFU~g?l'sk, ?Moscow, srd Voronezh. Noon temperature was-9'10 degrees in Riga
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prevailed. ir. the =~est of the European USSR During the day, the temperature vns
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20-22 degrees in Voronezh, Kursk, Kiev, Stalingrad, and Ros
temperatures, 24-25 degrees, were recorded in Dnepropetrovsk:: 03essa, and
It is repor+,ed from Rostov-o^-Don tl?.at spring wheat and barley are begin-
ning *.+o he Noon *_empera-
?.:res b~t.~+eea 24 sad. 26 degrees in Unepropetrovsk, Stalingrad, Odessa, and Simfero-
pol' were zecorded. In the rest of th.e European USSR, the weather was misty and
rsir~y .
Considexable precipltatinn i.n the form of wet snow and rain fell in 4rkhan-
gel'sk Oblast and in the K.a:elo-Finnish SSR~ Anew cold spell which begsa in_.
the northwestern regions reached the cents: regions by noon on 3C May, During
the day, the temperature was 7 degrees in Leningrad, Velikiye Luki, Riga, and
Minsk, g in L?vov, and 12 in Moscow and Orel The weather was also cool in the
Urals; tempe-~ture at 1200 was 6 degrees in Sverdlovsk, 10 in iJfa, and 13 in
Chkalov~
In the southern half of Bashkir AoSR (Zilair), winter ryc has begun head-
ing and spring wheat and oats are bushing out Winter grains will soon begin io
rfpen in the south where warm weather has prevailed, Winter rye has entered the
milky phase in the Zisovniki (Rostov Oblast) arena Reports from gikol'sk (Vologda
Oblast) and Arkhangelsk state that potatoes are being planted in the north
It has become c~~ler. in Tyumen' and Omsk oblasts; daytime temperatures there
ranged between 7 and 11 degrees, Considerably warmer weather prevails in Novosi-
birsk Oblast and in. Altay and Krasnoyarsk krays; noon temperatures There ranged
between i.8 and 23 degrees,
Rains fell and it became cooler in Khabarovsk and Primorskiy krays; noon
tempera'.ure in these krays was 20 degrees, In Uzbek and Kirgiz SSR, heavy rains
fell and it continued to become cooler Daytime temperature was 23 degrees in
Ashkhabad and 1'j in Stali:rabad and Tashkente
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