Climate of Magadan

The climate of Magadan as a whole can be described as subarctic, with features of a sea monsoon . Given the complex relief within the city limits, the region of the Dukcha River Valley, where the state farm of the same name is located, has its own characteristics. Climate differences between Magadan itself and the villages of Uttar and Sokol are even more noticeable. Winter is long and cold, characterized by unstable, windy weather. Summer is short, cool, foggy and damp. The average temperature overcomes the 0 ° C mark only in May, and falls below 0 ° C in early October. The warmest month of the year is August, with an average daily maximum of +15 ° C, the coldest month of the year - January, has an average daily temperature of −16.4 ° C. In July, frosts are excluded. The city never has extreme heat, moderately hot weather is very rare, the maximum temperature +27.2 ° C was observed on July 8, 2015, the previous maximum of the year was exactly +26 ° C. Unlike Eastern Siberia, where temperatures are usually −50 ° C and lower in winter, frosts rarely reach −25 ° C in Magadan , and only occasionally reach −30 ° C or more, the absolute minimum recorded in January 1954 , is −34.6 ° C ^[1] , which is comparable to the absolute minimum of most cities in the south of the European part of Russia and Chernozemye.

Determining Factors

The city of St. Petersburg is located at the same geographical latitude as Magadan. More severe climate in Magadan is explained by the proximity of the Sea of Okhotsk . It acts as a gigantic accumulator for the entire coastal region: in its vast bowl, which is quite isolated from the world's oceans in the spring, floating ice stagnates, the melting of which absorbs a lot of energy and, as a result, makes the coastal summer very cool. However, in the autumn and winter, its heat-intensive waters actively give off heat to the coastal edge, halving the frosts on the islands and peninsulas in comparison with the intermountain basins in the interior of the continent. The constant circulation of air masses from sea to land and vice versa makes winter in the city rather unstable: a powerful influx of cold continental air masses of the Yakut anticyclone in winter leads to clear, calm and frosty weather. Warming is brought by Pacific cyclones. Their passage brings an increase in temperature up to 0 ° C, which entails heavy snowfalls and blizzards.

Wind Mode

The location of the city on the border of land and sea leads to the fact that frequent sea winds, which are absent when deepening into the land, exacerbate its wind-cold index and make the weather quite harsh for humans, even in relatively small frosts. The average annual wind speed in Magadan is - 7-8 m / s. The maximum wind speed sometimes exceeds 40 m / s ^[2] .

Senior meteorologist and technologist at the Magadan meteorological station, Albina Petrova, claims that people generally tolerate 45 degrees of frost without wind on the mountain sections of the Kolyma highway much more easily than in coastal Magadan 24 degrees and with relatively little wind of 6-10 meters a second. It becomes especially difficult for a person when gusts begin to exceed 20 meters per second ^[3] .

The average annual temperature is −2.7 ° C
The average annual wind speed is 3.6 m / s
The average annual humidity is 72%

Climate of Magadan
Indicator	Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Absolute maximum, ° C	2,4	3.2	5.5	8	22.3	24.5	27,2	25.5	20,2	13.8	6.6	3.3	27,2
Average maximum, ° C	−14.2	−12.5	−8	−1.6	4.9	11.3	14.8	fifteen	10,4	1.7	−7.3	−12.8	0.1
Average temperature, ° C	−16.4	−15.4	−11.4	−4.6	1.8	7.8	11.8	12	7.5	−0.9	−9.8	−14.9	−2.7
Average minimum ° C	−18.5	−17.8	−14.4	−7.5	−0.5	5.2	9.6	9.7	5.1	−3.1	−12	−17	−5.1
Absolute minimum, ° C	−34.6	−33.3	−30.8	−23.5	−10.8	−3	2	−1	−6.3	−21.6	−26.9	−30.7	−34.6
Precipitation rate, mm	fourteen	13	17	33	37	47	64	93	77	80	60	26	561
Water temperature ° C	−1.7	−1.7	−1.7	−1.5	1,1	7.4	12	12.1	8.7	4.4	−0.2	−1.7	3,1
Source: Weather and Climate ESIMO

Climate of Magadan over the past 10 years (2004 - 2013)
Indicator	Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Average maximum, ° C	−13.6	−14.4	−7.1	−1.5	5.2	10.8	15.3	15.1	10.6	1,0	−6.8	−11.6	0.2
Average temperature, ° C	−15.3	−16.7	−10.1	−4.6	2.7	8.3	12.8	12.7	8.0	−1.4	−8.4	−13.3	−2.1
Average minimum ° C	−17.2	−19.1	−13	−7.6	0,0	5.5	10.3	10.3	5,4	−3.8	−10.1	−14.9	−4.5
Source: www.weatheronline.co.uk

Water temperature (1977-2005 years)
Indicator	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	But I	Dec	Year
Absolute maximum, ° C	−1.5	−1.3	1.8	0,0	8.6	16.6	17.8	18.0	14.0	8.7	4.9	−0.3	18.0
Average temperature, ° C	−1.73	−1.73	−1.73	−1.49	1.09	7.40	12.0	12.1	8.65	4.36	−0.15	−1.7	3.12
Absolute minimum, ° C	−1.8	−1.8	−1.8	−1.8	−1.8	−1	3.2	1,0	2.7	0.3	−1.8	−1.8	−1.8
Source: ESIMO

Notes

[1] Weather Surprises

[2] ttp://www.liveinternet.ru/community/2408720/post80074526/

[3] Vesti.Ru: Record frosts set in Magadan Oblast

Climate of Magadan

Determining Factors

Wind Mode

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