Published 07.11.2023 October turned out to be surprisingly warm, pampered not only the residents of the southern regions of the country, but also the northern ones. The first and second decades of the month were especially warm. In most parts of the republic, the air temperature was above the climatic norm by 1-3 ° C. In the northern half of the country during the daytime, the thermometer columns reached +15 +25 ° C, in the southern half - +22+30 °C. The heat peak occurred in the southern, southeastern, central and northern regions of Kazakhstan in the period of October 09-12, which was due to the intensive removal of warm air masses from the regions of Iran. During this period, temperature records were recorded on October 09 at the Kazalinsk meteorological station (MS) (Kyzylorda region), the air temperature rose to +27.7 °C, the last record for this day was in 2008 (+26.7 °C), on October 10, daily records were recorded at a number of meteorological stations: at MS Kyzylorda - +29.1 °C, such hot summer weather was last observed in 2019. (+28.0°C), on MS Shardara (Turkestan region) the maximum air temperature reached +29.0 ° C, updating the record of 2008. (+26.9 °C), at MS Taraz, the air temperature rose to +28.6°C in the afternoon, surpassing the record of 2019. (+25.3 °C), at MS Zhezkazgan the maximum air temperature was +27.3 °C, surpassing the record of 2012. (+24.6 °C), at MS Pavlodar the air temperature rose to +24.3°C in the afternoon, surpassing the record of 15 years ago (2008 +22.1°C), at MS Semey the maximum air temperature was +25.5°C, updating the record of 2019. (+25.0°C). On October 12, at MS Zharkent (Zhetisu region), the air warmed up to +28.6 ° C, the last time the absolute maximum for this day was recorded in 1992 (+27.0 ° C).
It was not without cold days, on some days, when the northern, central, and eastern regions froze at night with clearing. The air temperature in these regions dropped at night to -3-11 ° C. In the southern half of the country, the air temperature dropped to 0,-5 °C at night. Such temperatures are quite characteristic of October.
In October, with frequent passage of frontal sections, precipitation fell 1.3-5.3 times more than normal in almost most of the territory of Kazakhstan. At some meteorological stations, precipitation fell more than the monthly norm per day. For example: on October 07, 21 mm fell on Atyrau MS, with a monthly norm of 18 mm, on October 13, an almost two-month precipitation rate fell on Achisai MS (Turkestan region) - 59 mm (the monthly norm is 30 mm), on October 13, 31 mm fell on Shymkent MS (the monthly norm is 39 mm).
At the automatic meteorological station (AMS) Dostyk (Zhetisu region), the wind often increased during the month to the criteria of the OHS (spontaneous hydrometeorological phenomena), wind gusts reached 30-35 m/s.
The weather in the capital was no exception. The temperature background was also higher than the climatic norm by 2.5 °C. On October 10, the highest air temperature of the month was observed and amounted to +23.3 °C, thereby the maximum of 2008 was blocked, when +22.2°C. The lowest air temperature -5.8°C was recorded on October 27.
The norm of precipitation in October is 26 mm, precipitation fell 23 mm (this amount is 87% of the norm).