Published 11.11.2024 October 2024 showed all the variety of autumn weather. The beginning of the month pleased the inhabitants of the country with warm, sunny days, the middle brought a slight hint of winter, and by the end of the month rainy and cloudy weather prevailed.
In the first decade of October, the weather was warm throughout the country, daytime temperatures rose to +20+30 ° C, and on some days even records of maximum air temperatures were noted. So, on October 07, at the Aktau weather station (hereinafter - MS), the temperature rose to +27.4 °C, updating the 1994 record (+27.1°C); at MS Sam (Mangystau region), +29.1°C was recorded, thereby updating the record of 2008 (+28.5°C), at MS Atyrau the temperature was +28.1°C, surpassing the record of 2008 (+26.0°C), on October 08, a new record was set at MS Aktobe - +26.5°C, the previous record of +25.5°C was recorded in 1927. On October 09, absolute records of 2019 were updated at a number of weather stations: at MS Kostanay, the absolute record for this day was +24.2°C, the previous record was +23.2°C, at MS Kokshetau, the temperature rose to +23.5 °C, the previous record was +22.8°C, at MS Ekibastuz, the thermometer rose to +23.7°C, updating the record of +21.8°C.
In the second decade of October, with the influx of cold air masses from the regions of Scandinavia, new minimum temperature records were set in many regions of the country. So, for example, on October 13, at MS Kostanay, the temperature dropped to -10.2 °C (the previous record in 1924 was -9.2 °C), at MS Kokshetau to -11.5 ° C (the previous record in 2009 was -8.1 °C), and on October 14 at the same station, the air temperature dropped to -13.0 °C, having exceeded the record of 1976 of -10 °C, on October 13, the thermometer columns dropped to -8.5 °C at MS Pavlodar, and on October 14 to -8.8 °C, thereby updating the records of 1957 (-7.2 ° C) and 1979 (-8.0 °C), on MS Aktau, a record was also recorded on October 15 and It was -0.3°C, the previous one was +3.3°C in 2002.
In the third decade of the month, the air temperature remained relatively stable, without records.
The weather in the first half of October was pleasant with clear, sunny days, it was mostly without precipitation. In the second half of the month, weather conditions changed: cyclonic activity increased in a significant part of Kazakhstan, which led to frequent precipitation, sometimes strong up to 15-34 mm. In the northern regions, rain sometimes turned into snow and phenomena such as ice, fog with visibility of 50-500 m and wind gusts up to 15-26 m/s were observed.
In Astana, the average monthly air temperature was +5.5 °C, which corresponds to the norm (norm +5.0 °C).
The highest air temperature was recorded on October 01 and amounted to +22.8°C. The lowest air temperature in the capital was recorded on October 13 and amounted to -8.4 °C. Precipitation fell more than normal, 40 mm fell in a month, with a norm of 26 mm.