USSR WEATHER AND CROP INFORMATION, 21 MAY - 2 JUNE 1953

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• Publication Date: August 7, 1953
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SUBJECT Geographic -Weather conditions
Economic -Crop conditions
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PUBLISHED 23 May - 3 Jun 1953
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SECURITY INFORMATION
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ilnderlined dates refer to days of publication. All temperatures
are in degrees centigrade_7
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The cool weather which covered the northeastern European USSR on 21 May
remained on 22 May and continued to spread southward. Temperatures dropped
considerably in the southern Urals, falling from 21 degrees to 11 degrees in
Chkalov. Other temperatures recorded were 2 degrees above zero in Arkhangelsk
and 6 in Sverdlovsk and Ufa.
.i 1. i;;htly cloudy, dry weather prevailed in the Deltic republics, Delorussia,
the rr:ntral regions, the Ukraine, and the Northern Caucasus. Daytime temper-
atures generally ranged between 21 and 25 degrees. Thundershowers fell in some
areas of the Ukraine west of the Dnepr River.
'The weather was favorable for the growth of crops almost everywhere.
Winter barley was heading and sainfoin was floweric~ in the Crimea. In the
Ke~orat area in Moldavia, spring wheat gas stemming cut and alfalfa was begin-
ning to flc~+er. Winter rye was heading in Kievskaya, Zhitomirskaya, and
Poltavskaya oblsats.
Warm, dry weather continued in Omskaya and Novosibirskaya oblasts and
Alt~;;skiy Kray. Daytime temperatures ranged between 21 and 24 degrees. Rains
continue to fall in Tomskaya Oblast and northern Krasnoyarskiy Kray. In
Rastern Siberia, temperat~.res dropped somewhat. Very heavy rains continued
to fall ir. the Far East.
Tt was hot and dry in the Central. Asian republics. Winter barley was
entering the waxy stage of maturity around Iolotan' in Turkmenia. In many
areas, melons :rare devele*~ing the third leaf.
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24 MaY
On 23 May, very warm, sunny, dry weather prevailed in most of the European
USSR. Daytime temperatures were 24-25 degrees almost everywhere, but rose to
27 degrees in Riga, Tambov, Stalingrad, and Krasnodar.
Temperatures rose somewhat in the northern regions where cool weather had
prevailed; during the day, they xere 10 degrees above zero in Sverdlovsk, 12 in
Kazan', 13 in Kirov, 14 in Chkalov, and 19 in Gor'kiy. The cold wave penetrated
western and central Kazakhstan; the thermometer registered 13 degrees in Aktyu-
binsk and 19 in Rzyl-Order. Rains fell only in the Urals.
Alfalfa was being harvested for hay in Kheraonskays Oblast. Spring wheat
had entered the stemming-nut stage in the central and eastern Ukraine. Winter
rye had headed in western Belorussia.
It was dry and very warm in Western and Eastern Siberia. Daytime temper-
atures were 20 degrees in Omsk, 29 in Novosibirsk and Barnaul, and 22 in Krsa-
noyarsk and Irkutsk. Rains continued to fall in the Far East. It was very
warm and dry in Central Axis.
26 May
On 25 May, it became considerably cooler throughout the northern half of
the European USSR dawn to a line running from ldinsk to Kazan'. Noon tempera-
tures were 6 degrees above zero in Petrozavodsk, 7 in Arkhangelsk, Vologda,
and Leningrad, 9 in Velikiye Luki, and 10 in Riga. In most areas, the cooler
weather was accompanied by downpaura and winds.
In the central chernozem zone and southward, the weather was dry and
very warm. Daytime tempers+,urea xere 22 degrees in Kursk, 24 in Kuybyshev,
28-29 in Saratov, Kishinev, Dnepropetrovsk, Stalingrad, Simferopol', and
Rostov on the Don, 30 in Groznyy, and 31 in Voroshilovgrad.
Relatively warm weather without precipitation prevailed in Western
Siberia. Daytime temperatures ranged between 16 and 19 degrees. Rains fell
in Tomskaya and Kemerovskaya oblasts and central Krasnoyarskiy Kray; at some
places, they totaled up to 12-14 millimeters. It vas cool in the northern
half of Kazakhstan.
IL vas dry and very warm in Central .ksis Tomatoes were blossoming
around Tashkent; cotton ha3 formed the fifth leaf.
On 26 May, the cooler weather of the day before had reached the Ukraine
and the Northern Caucasus. Daytime temperatures were only 17 degrees in
Odessa, Rostov on the Don, and Krasnodar, 14 in Stalingrad and Kiev, 11 in
Saratov and Voronezh, 10 Sn Minsk, 9 in Moscw, and 5 in Kazan'. At night,
the temperature dropped to almost zero in many central and northwestern
regions; however, due to wend and high humidity, no frosts were observed
anywhere except in some northwestern areas, where the temperature fell to
one degree below zero at ground level. Warmer weather moved in during the
day in the northwest; as compared with the previous day, temperatures rose
2-3 degrees and reached 8 degrees in Arkhangelsk and Petrozavodsk, 10 in
Leningrad, and 12 in Riga.
During the night and morning; rains fell in the Urals and in the Middle
Volga Region and snow in Kirov. Rains also began to fall in the Kuban'
and in Rostovskays Oblast. Development of crops was slowed by the cool
'.weather, but neither crops nor orchards were damaged. In the Volga Region,
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the eastern Ukraine, and the Northern Caucasus, conditions for the development
of crops improved because of the cool xeather. Early spring grains were bush-
ing in most areas, had stemmed out in the south, and xere even heading in some
areas.
It xas warm in Western Siberia and northern Kazakhstan. Daytime tempera-
tures xere around 20 degrees. On 25 May, rains fell in Tomskaye, Novosibirakaya,
and Kemerovekaya oblasts, Altayskiy Kray, and in many areas of Akmolinskaya,
Karagundinskaya, and Pavlodarskaya oblasts. The development of crops xas
proceeding normally.
On 27 May, cool xeather had reached the most southerly areas of the
European USSR. Daytime temperatures were only 16-17 degrees in Groznyy,
Alakhachkala, and Krasnodar. In the Ukraine, temperatures at night held at
4-6 degrees above zero. In some low-lying places oP the central chernozem
zone and the Middle Yolga Region, light frosts were observed during the night.
It became warmer in the western and central regions; daytime temperatures
were 15 degrees in Minsk and 14 in Moscow.
Rains Pell during both the night and the day in the Karelo-Finnish SSR,
the northwestern regions, the Far East, the Baltic republics, northern Belo-
russia, and the northern central regions.
Warm weather xithout precipitation continued in Western Siberia. In
Central Asia, the weather was dry and hot.
29 MaY
On 28 May, relatively warm weather prevailed in the southern European
USSR and most o'f the central zone. It was cool in the went, north, and east.
The highest noon temperature, 23 degrees, was recorded in Kishinev. Other
temperatures were 22 degrees Sn Krasnodar, 21 in Rostov on the Don and
Voroshilovgrad, 19-20 in Saratov, Stalingrad, and Dnepropetrovsk, 17 in Orel
and Kiev, 15 in Moscow, 1>a in Lvov, Kursk, and Kazan', 13 in Chkalov, 11-12
in Minsk, Velikiye Luki, Riga, Vologda, Kirov, Syktyvkar, Tambov, and
Voronezh, 9 in Leningrad, 8 in Petroznvodsk and Ufa, 7 in Sverdlovsk, and
6 in Arkhangelsk.
During the first 12 hours of 28 May, precipitation was recorded in
most of the northern half of the European USSR. Light rains fell in some
areas of the central region, the central chernozem zone, and the northern
U':raine (Sumskaya, Chernlgovskaya, and I~ievskaya oblasts).
Planting of potatoes was continuing in Lhe northern half of the
European USSR and weeding of sugar beets, sunflowers, and other row crops
in the southern portion.
In Western Siberia, the weather was very warm and without precipitation
everywhere except in the areas adjoining the Ural Mountains. Noon temperatures
were 25 degrees in Barnaul, 27 in Krasnoyarsk, 28 in Novosibirsk, and 29 in
Omsk.
Very warm weather without precipitation prevailed ir. most of Kazakhstan.
Noon temperatures rose to 23-27 de};rees. Zt was cool only in the western
*.ortion of the republic.
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30 May
On 29 May, overcast weather with precipitation prevailed in most of the
European USSR. During the first 12 hours of the day, rains fell in Moldavia,
most of the Ukraine, central chernozem zone, and central regions. Precipita-
lon vas also recorded in the northern European USSR.
Noon temperatures were 24-26 degrees in the Northern Caucasus, 22-23
degrees is Simferopol', Saratov, and Kuybyshev, 20 in Voroshilovgrad, 19 is
Sverdlovsk, 17 in Kirov, 14-16 in most of the Ukraine, Moldavia, the central
region and the central chernozem zone, 12-13 in Lvov, Riga, and Syktyvkar,
10 in Velikiye Luki and Vologda, 9 in Leningrad, 8 in Arkhangelsk, and 6 in
Petrozavodak and Minsk.
In Western Siberia, the weather remained very warm everywhere. Tempera-
tures rose to 28-30 degree. ~n Omsk, Navosibirsk, and Barnaul. Farther east-
ward, all the way to Primorskiy Kray, it was cool. Rains were observed is
the Far East.
Very warm weather continued in moat of Kazakhstan, especially in the
northern and eastern portions. Temperatures tY,ere rose above 30 degrees.
No precipitation was observed.
Ii: Central Hain, noon temperatures were 23-24 degrees in the Tashkent
and Stalinabad areas and 20 degrees around Ashkhabad.
During the first 12 hours of 30 May, overcast weather with rain was
observed in the eastern Ukraine, in some areas of the central chernozem
zone, in the Lower and the Middle Volga regions, Arkhangel'skaya Oblast,
Komi ASSR, and in some areas of Belorussia and Velikolukskaya and Pskovskaya
oblaets. The greatest amounts of precipitation, 7-11 millimeters, fell
during this period in some areas of Saratovskaya, Penzenskaya, and U1'yanov-
skaya oblasts and in the northern European USSR.. Dry weather prevailed in
most of the central region, the western Ukraine, the Crimea, and the Northern
Caucasus.
Temperatures were 25-27 degrees around Nal'chik, Groznyy, and Kuybyshev,
23 in Krasnodar, 22 in Chkalav and Stalingrad, 20 in Simferopol', 19 in
Rostav on the Dor. and Sverdlovsk, 16-17 in Kishinev, Odessa, Voroshilovgrad,
and ^uyktyvkar, 14-15 in Kirov, Kazan', Gor'kiy, Kursk, Dnepropetrovs}:, Kiev,
and L vov, ].1-12 Sn Minsk, Moscow, Riga, Vologda, and Peirozavodsk, and 10
in Arkhangelsk.
The weather was very warm in Western Siberia. boon temperatures rose
to 27-29 degrees in Omsk, Novosibirsk, and Barnaul. It was cooler farther
east. Rains fell in some areas of the Transbaykal rr_gion and Primorskiy
Kray.
Zt was dry almost everywhere in Kazakhstan and the Central Asian republics.
The thermometer registered 22-25 degrees in most areas.
The weather became considerably warmer throughout the European USSR.
On 31 May and 1 Sune, it was overcast in the west and in the northern Urals;
it was dry in the rest of the European USSR.
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On 1 June, the highest noon temperature, 32 degrees, was recorded at
Groznyy; other noon temperatures were 29 in Krasnodar, Rostov on the Don, and
Voroshilovgrad, 27 in Dnepropetrovsk, 20-?_2 in the Kiev area, in the central
chernozem zone, Volga Region, most of the central region, Vologda, Leningrad,
and Arkhangelsk, 18-19 in Moldavia, Belorussia, the Baltic republics, and
the wasters Ukraine, and 16-17 Sn Chkalov, Ufa, Kirov, Syktyvkar, and Uat'-
Tsil'ma.
Rye xae flowering in most of the Ukraine and heading as far as aline
running from Pskov to Kirov. Winter wheat was flowering in the Kuban' and
southern Rostovskaya Oblast. In the far northern European USSR, oats, peas,
and other spring crops xere sprouting. In the south, spring wheat was ap-
proaching the heading stage.
It became sharply cooler in the Tobol'sk area of Western Siberis. With
a 30-degree temperature, it was still hot in Novosibirsk; but the daytime
temperature In Omsk had fallen to 22 degrees. Noon temperatures were 24 degrees
in the Irkutsk area and 16-18 degrees in the Transbaykal region as far as
Khabarovsk. Rains fell at some places, including Chita and Khabarovsk.
It was very warn in Kazakhstan and the Central Asian republics. Noon
temperatures there rose to 29 degrees and above. It was somewhat cooler
only in the Ashkhabad area. Rains fell only in scattered mountainous areas.
3 June
On 2 June, very warm weather continued in most of the European USSR.
Noon temperatures generally--from KrasnWar to Arkhangelsk and from Minsk
to Chkalov -_ rose to 22-24 degrees and at some places, Voreshilovgrad for
example, still higher. Rowever, in the Crimea and in the extreme southern
Ukraine, the thermometer registered only 17-18 degrees. Cool weather with
temperatures of 11-12 degrees was also observed Sn the outskirts of Lvov,
the Petrozavodak area, and around Sverdlovsk. During the first 12 hours
oP the 24-hour period, rains fell Sn the Crimea, the portion of the southern
Ukraine bordering the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, the extreme western Ukraine,
and the extreme northern portion of Arkhangel'skaya Oblast.
Winter wheat was flawering in the Northern Caucasus, the Crimea, and
extreme southern Ukraine. Spring wheat wrs stemming out almost throughout
the Ukraine and in the Lover Volga Region. In these areas, sunflowers were
getting their second pair of leaves.
In Western Siberia, cool weather was observed in Tyumerskaya and
Omskaya oblasts; noon temperatures did not rise above 15 degrees in these
areas. It was hot everywhere in Novosibirskaya Oblast and Altayskiy and
$rasnoyarskiy krays; noon temperatures rose to 31-33 degrees. It was warm
also in Irkutskaya Oblast. In the Transbaykai region, it was cool all the
way to Khabarovsk; noon temperatures were 13 degrees in Chita and 15 i^
Blagoveshchensk and Khabarovsk. Rains fell at some places. Winter rye was
heading in Altayskiy Kray, the southern. portions of Tyumenskaya, Omskaya,
and Novosibirskaya oblasts, and in northern Kazakhstan.
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