Warmth will return to southern Russia early next week — weather forecasters promise

For several days now, the southern regions of European Russia have been experiencing cold weather with frequent rain, thunderstorms and hail, and waterspouts have been observed in coastal waters. In Anapa for the last three days the air temperature has been 2-4 degrees below the climate norm, the same situation has developed in Tuapse and Sochi. In Krasnodar and Stavropol, a negative temperature anomaly has been observed for more than a decade and on some days reaches 7-8 degrees. In Simferopol and Kerch, the last time the air temperature was within the climatic norm was on May 4, and in Yalta and Feodosia the cold snap has lasted for the last three days: the maximum air temperature is no higher than 17-18 degrees.

The rains in Crimea will stop on Friday, and on Saturday the weather on the Black Sea coast will begin to improve. There will be fewer clouds in the sky, the winds in the atmosphere will turn to the west, and the temperature will begin to rise. By the weekend, the thermometer will rise to 18-23 degrees, and with the beginning of the new week it will warm up to 20-25 degrees, which is within the climatic norm. The last ten days of May in the region promises to be warmer, 1-1.5 degrees warmer than the climate norm, and drierthe message says.

Now the water temperature on the beaches of the region is quite low: in the Azov Sea it is only 14-16 degrees, in the Black Sea it is 15-17 degrees. You should not expect a rapid increase in water temperature; it will rise slowly and will continue to lag behind the long-term average.