USSR WEATHER AND CROP REPORTS, (27 SEPTEMBER - 3 OCTOBER 1951)

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• Publication Date: November 2, 1951
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REPORT
CENTRAL INTELMENC 'GENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Geographic - Weather conditions
Economic - Crop conditions
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIALTZCONFIDENTIA1.
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Sovkhoznaya Gazeta,
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
DATE DIST. Z, Nov 1951
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
USSR WEATHER AND CROP REPORTS,
27 September - 3 October 1951)
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29 September 1951
On 27 and 28 September, comparatively cold weather continued in the north-
ern, northeastern, and central regions ' the European USSR. On 27 September,
considerable rain fell in the Urals and the northwestern Ukraine. Warm weather
was observed in the northwestern and western regions, the Ukraine, Caucasus, and
Lower Volga Region. The rains which fell during the last days, together with
the warm weather prevailing in the Ukraine and Moldavia, created favorable con-
ditions there for the growth and development of winter crops.
During the first 12 hours of 28 September, rain was recorded in the north-
eastern regions and locally in the Urals. On 28 September, noon temperatures
were 3 degrees in. Ufa and Sverdlovsk, 5 in Chkalov, 7 in Petrozavodsk, Velikiye
Luki, and Kuybyshev, 10 in Moscow and Tambov, 11 in Nallchik, 12 in Orel and
Kursk, 13 in Minsk and LTvov, 15 in Stalingrad, 18 in Voroshilovgrad, Rostov-
on-Don, Odessa, Krasnodar, Makhachkala, and Tbilisi, and 19 in Kishinev,
Dnepropetrovsk, and Yerevan.
Warm weather prevailed during the day in Central Asia, Kazakhstan, and West
Siberia. During the night, frosts were recorded in eastern West Siberia and in
most of East Siberia. Light rains.fell locally in Altay Kray.
2 October 1951
On 30, September and 1 October, cool but dry weather favorable for sowing
work prevailed in most of the European USSR. Heavy. rains fell only in the
northern Ukraine and southern Belorussia; locally, they'amounted to more than
10 millimeters. Cold weather with precipitation, locally in the form of snow,
continued to prevail in the Urals.
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On 1 October, noon temperatures were 2 degrees in Sverdlovsk, 3 in Ufa,
Chkalov, Vologda, and Syktyvkar, 4 in Kirov, Kazan', and Gor'kiy, 5 in Kuybyshev,
6 in Moscow, 7 in Orel, Tambov, and Voronezh, 8 in Kursk, Saratov, and Stalin-
grad, 10 in Rostov-on-Don, Dnepropetrovsk, and Leningrad, 11 in Minsk, 12 in
L'vov, 14 in Odessa, 15 in Kishinev, 16 in Krasnodar, and 18 in Tbilisi.
The cooler weather which set in in the central and southern European USSR
somewhat retarded the growth and development of winter sowings. But all sowings
have bushed out well, and the slight retardation in growth will have no nega-
tive effect on them.
The weather was favorable in most areas for harvesting and for working the
soil.
In West Siberia, it was cool and rain =oil locally. On 1 October, daytime
temperatures were 6 degrees in Tobol'sk, 10 in Novosibirsk, 12 in Omsk, and 13
in Barnaul.
It became cooler and rain fell in the northern parts of the Central Asiatic
republics. In Tashkent, the temperature during the day was only 18 degrees and
rain fell. It was still warm (about 24-26 degrees during the day) and dry in
Turkmenia and Tadzhikistan.
4 October 1951
On 2 and 3 October, cloudy weather with precipitation prevailed in most of
the European USSR. Slightly cloudy weather without precipitation continued in
.the southern Ukraine, the Crimea, Rostov Oblast, and the Lower Volga Region.
Light precipitation in the form of rain and snow was observed in the northern
and eastern regions of the European USSR and in the Urals. Cloudy weather with
rain was recorded in the northwestern and central regions and the northern
Ukraine.
On 3 October, noon temperatures were 2 degrees in Sverdlovsk and Ufa, 4 in
Arkhangel'sk, Kazan', and Kursk, 5 in Petrozavodsk, Kirov, Chkalov, Moscow, and
Orel, 6 in Gor'kiy, Minsk, and Ku jshev, 8 in Leningrad and Voronezh, 9 in
L'vov, 10 in Dnepropetrovsk and Voroshilovgrad, 11 in Riga and Stalingrad, 12
in Kishinev and Krasnodar, 13 in Rostov-on-Don and Simferopol', 14 in Odessa,
17 in Yerevan, and 21 in Makhachkala.
Cloudy weather with precipitation prevailed in West Siberia. Heavy snow-
falls were recorded in Omsk Oblast. Daytime temperatures were one degree in
Tobol'sk, 3 in Omsk, Novosibirsk, and Krasnoyarsk, 6 in Barnaul, and 15 in
Irkutsk.
Slightly cloudy and cold weather was observed in most of Kazakhstan. In
Central Asia, it was slightly cloudy and warm. Rain fell in the mountain areas
of Central Asia. Daytime temperatures reached 21 degrees in Ashkhabad, 22 in
Tashkent, and 28 in Stalinabad.
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