“there is No connection between weather in early may and the weather during the summer months – told the “Russian newspaper” scientific Director of the hydrometeorological center of Russia Roman Vilfand. – How can we easily and worked well, if it really existed of the relationship between the seasons! No, never happened”.
Vilfand noted that during the first week of may fell 30-40% from the monthly norm of precipitation. But this is actually pretty good. So you can count on a rich harvest. “Remember the proverb: may cold – year of the granaries! After all, if may is hot and dry, it is a harbinger of a poor harvest. Because in may, the soil needs to retain moisture. When may cool and summers are warm, and then harvest wonderful,” – said the forecaster.
Now a complicated situation in the South of the European territory. “Those precipitation that now falls in the Stavropol region and the republics of the North Caucasus, the fertile. But there is no picture as they are evenly distributed in cultivated areas. If evenly, then they will be able to compensate for the droughty situation due to lack of snow. After all, winter in the South was warm and very little rain fell in March and April,” – said Vilfand.
He also added that, of course, in the summer on the European part will be showers and thunderstorms. This is a normal phenomenon. Downpours are characterized by the fact that they pass quickly: on average, heavy precipitation lasts half an hour. “Winter precipitation is carry air masses from the Atlantic ocean, the Mediterranean sea. And in the summer there are portable, precipitation, and convective, that is, those which are formed by the rapid lifting of air masses from the surface of the earth. Then there are showers. This is generally a problem in meteorology – rain . They form in an unstable atmosphere. And local. Their intensity and frequency is very difficult to predict,” – said the forecaster.
