Meteorologists believe that this summer in Yekaterinburg could become the rainiest in the history of observations.
This summer in Yekaterinburg turned out to be the second highest in terms of precipitation in the entire history of meteorological observations. According to the city meteorological station, the total amount of precipitation reached 506 millimeters, which is 211% of the climatic norm.
The absolute anti-record was just 14 millimeters away from the Ural capital. The record remains with the year 1937, when 520 millimeters fell during the summer months. In June of this year, the norm was exceeded three times: 198 millimeters fell instead of 72 millimeters. July and August showed 176 millimeters and 132 millimeters respectively (with norms of 93 and 75 millimeters).
Meteorologist Alexey Pulin added that such figures have been recorded in the region for the first time in the last 89 years. Nevertheless, the anti-record could still be broken in the remaining days. Rain is expected again this week.
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Meteorologists believe that this summer in Yekaterinburg could become the rainiest in the history of observations.
This summer in Yekaterinburg turned out to be the second highest in terms of precipitation in the entire history of meteorological observations. According to the city meteorological station, the total amount of precipitation reached 506 millimeters, which is 211% of the climatic norm.
