#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Snowfalls in June, July, and August are regularly recorded by meteorologists. The popular proverb “summer is short, but with little snow” in the Arctic is no joke.
The very first meteorological observations in Norilsk began when there was neither a city nor plants: in the first Norilsk wintering under the leadership of Nikolay Urvantsev in 1921-1922.
Regular monitoring of the Norilsk weather began in 1934. Norilsk was then entrusted to the main department of the Northern Sea Route, and it created its own meteorological station here.
When the construction of the city began, the Norilsk combine opened two of its own meteorological points: in the area of the industrial site and at Dolgoye lake. Then another one – on lake Boganidskoye, where there was a transshipment base for the horse-drawn road from Dudinka. In 1939, a whole meteorological bureau was created at the combine’s design department.
Until the 1960s, the Norilsk combine and the city kept track of their own weather. In the 1950s, a station operated at lake Tiskel, near Zub mountain, with its own meteorological services at the Nadezhda and Valyok airports.
Officially, according to the program of the All-Union Hydrometeorological Service, Norilsk weather began to be recorded only from 1961. That year, the Norilsk-main weather station was opened.
The highest air temperature officially recorded by the meteorological service in Norilsk is +32 degrees. It was observed twice – on July 21, 2013 and on June 23, 2022.
In the History Spot’s previous publication, we talked about the first children born in Norilsk.
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Text: Svetlana Ferapontova, Photo: Nornickel Polar Branch archive
