Published 14.03.2023 The air temperature in February was 1-3° above normal in most of the republic.
Record values of the temperature background were observed at the beginning of the third decade of February. For example, on February 20, the maximum air temperature of +12.0 ° C was recorded at the Aktau weather station (Mangystau region), thereby updating the record of 2002 (+11.1 °C), on February 22 at the Arkalyk weather station (Kostanay region) the highest air temperature was +3.5 °C, thereby breaking the record of 1978, when the air temperature was +3.0 ° C, at the Astana weather station (Akmola region) the maximum air temperature was +4.8 ° C, thus the record of 1978 was updated (+2.7 ° C), at the Zhezkazgan weather station (Ulytau region) the air warmed up to +4.3 ° C, thus, the record of 1999 was updated (+2.7 ° C), at the Ust-Kamenogorsk weather station (East Kazakhstan region) it was +6.5 ° C, thus the record of 1991 was blocked (+4.5 ° C), on February 23 at the Pavlodar weather station (Pavlodar region) the maximum value of the air temperature was +3.4 ° C, thereby updating the record of 1978 (+3.0 °C), at the Balkhash weather station (Karaganda region) the thermometer columns reached +3.1 ° C, earlier in 1940 it was +2.8 ° C, the maximum air temperature was +5.3 °C at the Semey weather station (Abai region), thus, the record of 1999 was blocked (+3.3 ° C).
In the first and third decades of the month, the frequent passage of Southern and Atlantic cyclones through the territory of the republic caused a record amount of precipitation. For example, heavy precipitation was observed: in Atyrau region, on February 03, 7 mm fell at the Ganyushkino weather station, with a monthly norm of 6 mm, on February 04: at the Peshnaya weather station - 11 mm (norm of 10 mm), at the Makhambet weather station, an almost two-month norm of 18 mm fell, with a monthly norm of 10 mm, at the Inderborsky weather station the monthly norm of 13 mm fell, at the Atyrau weather station - 15 mm (norm of 12 mm), 43 mm fell on February 09 at the Shuyldak weather station (Turkestan region), 88 mm fell during the month, and 174 mm fell during the month, which doubled the norm for the month, on February 22 at the Timiryazevo weather station (North Kazakhstan region), more than the monthly norm fell 15 mm (norm of 12 mm), on February 25, almost a two-month norm of 24 mm fell at the Dmitrievka weather station (Abai region) with a norm of 15 mm.
In Astana in February 2023, the lowest air temperature according to meteorological observations was recorded on February 12 and amounted to -24.9 °C, the highest air temperature was observed on February 22 - +4.8 ° C. Precipitation for the month fell 21 mm, with a norm of 17 mm, which was 125% of the norm.