RSE Kazhydromet has released a brief announcement of the assessment of the climate in 2024 in Kazakhstan. The review provides brief information on the state of the climate for 2024 (January December) and seasons, as well as on climate changes in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan and its administrative-territorial regions. Data on climatic anomalies of air temperature and precipitation, agro-climatic conditions, and the state of the water surface of large reservoirs in Kazakhstan – the Caspian Sea and Lake Baikal - are presented. Balkhash, about extreme weather and climatic events. In 2024, the average temperature was 0.87 °C above normal, making it the sixth-warmest year in the 10% of the warmest years on record since 1941; warming affected all seasons, especially April, January and June, with positive anomalies across the country. The year turned out to be wet: winter became the rainiest in history (144.5% of the norm), precipitation in spring, summer and autumn exceeded the norm, but was unevenly distributed. Precipitation records have been set at 20 weather stations in Kazakhstan located in different parts of the country since 1941. The snow cover formed late, but in some places it reached 211% of the norm and melted earlier than usual. Agro-climatic conditions were generally favorable, although there was a shortage of moisture in the south; spring warming prolongs the growing season, but increases the risk of droughts. Since 1976, temperatures have been rising by 0.36 °C per decade, especially in the west, with precipitation increasing in winter and spring in the north. In 2024, 190 extreme events were recorded — strong winds, heavy rains, snowstorms, heat and cold; The spring flood became one of the largest in decades, heat and drought caused damage to agriculture in the south. https://www.kazhydromet.kz/ru/klimat/obzor-ob-osobennostyah-klimata-na-territorii-kazahstana
