June of this year was the coolest in Ashgabat
This June in Ashgabat proved to be the coolest in the past 16 years. The average monthly temperature in the capital was +29.5°C, which is only slightly – by 0.1°C – below the climatic norm.
In recent years, against the backdrop of global climate change and a particularly warm past decade, the average monthly temperature in June has consistently exceeded the norm (according to data from 1991–2020, it is +29.6°C). Since 2013, June temperatures have not fallen below +30°C, and the last time the value was below normal was in 2009, when the average monthly temperature reached +28.5°C.
The hottest Junes during this period were in 2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, when the average temperature exceeded +31°C. In June 2015, an absolute maximum for the entire observation period was also recorded: +47.2°C.
Interestingly, May of this year, conversely, became the warmest May in the history of meteorological observations in Ashgabat (+27.1°C), while April was the second warmest.
Throughout June, the weather was characterized by variability: short periods of heat were replaced by longer days with temperatures around or slightly below the norm. This was attributed to the influence of thermal depressions during north-westerly incursions and the arrival of less warmed air masses along the southern and south-western periphery of anticyclones, whose centers were located over Kazakhstan, as reported by Meteozhurnal.
The maximum temperature of the month was recorded on June 16th (+41.6°C), and the minimum on June 9th (+16°C). In June, there were 4 days with temperatures above +40°C and only one day when the thermometer rose above +41°C.
June 8th notably stands out as the coolest June day since 2023: the average daily temperature was almost 10°C below normal, and the daytime maximum reached only +19°C. On this day, a reverse course of daily temperature, rare for summer in Ashgabat, was also observed.
The total precipitation for the month was 7.7 mm, which corresponds to the average monthly norm.
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