119 days without sun

Natalya Mironicheva shared the leading weather forecast of the forecasts of the Hydrometeorological Center of St. Petersburg by the preliminary results of 2021. Her comment was published by Fontanka.

The average annual temperature was 6.4 degrees, which is 1.4 degrees higher than the norm. However, this is not a record-the 2021st became only the eleventh among the warmest years of the last twenty years.

May turned out to be the most rainy in the history of observations, the amount of precipitation was 362 % of the monthly norm. A total of 766 mm, or 120 % of the norm fell in a year. For comparison: in 2016, 863 mm of precipitation fell.

The sun shone for 1639 hours at a norm of 1678. On average in St. Petersburg, according to the weather forecaster, they record 123 days without the sun. In 2021, there were 119 such days.

Photo on the cover: improvement committee

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