Going to spend the New Year holidays in St. Petersburg, tourists pre-view the weather forecast in order to choose a vacation program. Winter 2019-2020 in the Northern capital, unlike Moscow, will be snowy and will delight city guests with a slight frost.
December
Winter weather will be established in the city at the end of November, so in the first days of December ice will already become on the Neva. The snow will not stop too: it will cover the earth with a dense carpet, but the wind will come with it. The air temperature will be comfortable for walking. The column of the thermometer in the daytime drops to only -2 ... -3 ° C, and at night - to -7. Such weather will last until the middle of the month, and then the rains will come and the air will warm up to + 2 ° С. The sky will be cloudy, humidity will increase, which will be noticeable even for the usual wet climate of St. Petersburg.
And yet the city will greet the New Year with frost. In the 20th days it will be up to -3 ° C in the afternoon, but just before the holiday it will get a little warmer, to -0 ° C, and the wind will blow. Only one thing will delight the guests of the Northern capital: there will be no ice usual for Petersburgers on New Year's Eve.
January
In general, January will become a real winter fairy tale for the city, but not its first week. Before Christmas, the temperature will rise and occasionally it will rain. Snowfalls will come to St. Petersburg in the second decade of the month and continue until the 20th day. Weather forecasters do not exceed the norm of precipitation, but there will still be a dense, stable cover. Until the end of the New Year holidays, residents and guests of St. Petersburg will be able to sled, ski or wander along the snowy paths in the forest. The temperature will stay within the range of -3 ... -6 ° С for almost the whole month.
In the last decade, the thermometer column will fluctuate from -2 ... -7 ° C, and then slightly increase to -2 ° C. Such a jump will lead to ice. The most unpleasant for residents of the city will be an increase in wind: in conditions of high humidity, the temperature in the street will be felt several degrees lower than it actually will be.
February
The weather forecast for the second month of 2020 in St. Petersburg will be the most unpredictable this season. Its residents have long been accustomed to the fact that February is usually very cold, but this year it will surprise everyone with a maximum of positive indicators on the thermometer column.
In the first decade, the temperature will stay at -3 ° C during the day and -10 ° C at night. It will be wet snow, clouds will cover the sky. In the second decade, snowstorms will begin, but without severe frost. Small temperature differences will cause icing on the roads.
This will continue until the end of the month, and the spring sun, which is usually expected in St. Petersburg, is not expected. Winter will fight for its rights to the last: light snow will be replaced by gusty wind with rain.
Climatic features of the region
Tourists represent St. Petersburg as a raw and cold city, and this is true, because the Northern capital is located on the border between the temperate continental and temperate-sea climate. Active cyclonic activity leads to frequent changes in air masses. According to statistics, during the year, the bright rays of the sun warm the city for only 75 days.
Summer in St. Petersburg is cool, but winter, compared to Moscow, is mild, albeit damp. It seems that the wind is blowing constantly and from all sides. In winter, the western and south-western directions prevail, which is why frequent fogs occur. The Atlantic has a strong influence on the weather, from where more than half of the air masses come from.
With the development of infrastructure, the climate has changed.Forecasters over the past 100 years have noted an increase in average annual temperature by 2 degrees: today this is + 5.8 ° C. This is noticeable even when analyzing the temperature difference in the city and the region: if at the beginning of the 19th century in St. Petersburg it was 5 degrees warmer than outside it in the villages, today the difference is up to 8 degrees. For the city authorities this causes a lot of problems.
Previously, 60 l / s / ha was considered the norm of rainfall during a shower, but today it is already 4 liters more. Stormwater can not cope with such a stream, which leads to flooding of city blocks. In winter, there was more snow, which leads to an increase in the water level in the Neva. Only in the last 30 years there have been 60 floods. Because of this, in 2011 a new dam was built.
Forecasters write off such changes not only on the influence of the metropolis. The instability of the weather is associated with high-altitude cyclones that bring cold air in the summer and warm in the winter. Because of them, it is very difficult to make the most accurate forecast for the winter of 2019-2020 in St. Petersburg.
Omens
About what will be the winter of 2019-2020 in St. Petersburg, you can judge by popular signs:
- if all-around women’s name days (September 30) fall all the foliage on the trees, then be a harsh winter;
- the north or east wind to Pokrov (October 14) to a cold and snowless winter, the south to heat, and the west to snow and frost;
- if snow falls on the Veil, then Christmas will be snowy;
- if on Eulampia (October 23) the horns of the month stick out at midnight, then the snow will soon fall;
- the drier September, the later the winter will come.
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