Published 06.04.2021 Meteorological observations in Turkestan began on May 13, 1882 and were conducted until 1924 with several interruptions. Since 1924, the weather station has been operating without interruption.
From 1955 to 1958, the station was under the management of the Hydrometeorological Service of the Uzbek SSR. All the time I worked on the program of the II-th category. It was originally located on a vast site in the center of the city. On November 26, 1930, the weather site was moved to the railway line, to the berthing village of Borislavka, located 5 km to the west, on the outskirts of the village. On August 23, 1938, it was moved to the airport area. In May 1957, it was refitted.
MS Turkestan was closed on August 1, 1996 and reopened on April 1, 1999 on the northern outskirts of the city on the territory of the Yassy cotton factory in a park area.
On January 20, 2011, the MC was moved to its former location-the western outskirts of the city, the former airport building is 200 m away, residential buildings of the Bekzat microdistrict begin 50 m to the SE, and the Turkestan-Baltakol highway passes 1000 m from the MC.
The settlement on the site of the modern city of Turkestan, located at the intersection of the caravan routes from Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva to the north, appeared around 500 AD. The first mention of the new name of the city — Turkestan dates back to the XV century.
According to the classification of Alisov, the climate in the city is subtropical, intra-continental, extremely dry, and in summer precipitation may not fall every year. Turkestan is one of the few cities in the world where the temperature was directly recorded at +49 °C, at the same time, in winter, cracking frosts are possible. Summer is extremely hot: the average temperature in July is +28.7 °C, in January -3.1 °C. In summer, there are huge daily temperature fluctuations, which are 15-20 °C, in winter less — about 10 °C due to the not so strong warming of the sun. The weather in winter is unstable and varies from strong thaws to prolonged cold spells.