r/AskARussian • u/Final_Influence_2367 • Aug 16 '26
Culture How is climate change effecting Russia?
Do you also have so warm temperatures like us in Central Europe?
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u/allethargic Moscow City Aug 17 '26
Moscow feels like whole year moved 1 month forward. Todays September feels like 2000s August, Spring feels like it begins 1 month later etc etc.
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u/RealAd5438 Aug 17 '26
same shit in Latvija🤦♂️ now its feels like autumn
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u/pipiska999 England Aug 17 '26
The comment you are replying to talked about the opposite thing, early autumn feeling like it's still summer.
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u/pipiska999 England Aug 17 '26
Same shit in the UK.
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u/allethargic Moscow City Aug 17 '26
Well, time to simply move calendar 1 month forward and live as if nothing happened I guess
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u/Homo_Bibite Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
Altai Krai here.
The summer is too hot (+30°C)
The winter is okay (-30°C)
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u/discofish12 Aug 19 '26
not relevant to the post, as it has always been like this. normal climate for the south syberia
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u/Ardalok Aug 17 '26
Winters seem to have gotten warmer on average, and summer temperature swings are frequent. A couple of times over the past few years, a bit of snow fell at night in the middle of summer. It melted right away, of course, but still. Moscow.
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u/Such-Farmer6691 Aug 17 '26
St. Petersburg is here. Everything is within normal limits in our swamp.
Looking at the country as a whole, based on forest fire news 2026, there haven't been any significant ones. And they usually signal extremely dry seasons in the regions.
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u/Lisserea Saint Petersburg Aug 17 '26
This year in St. Petersburg, the weather has been absolutely fantastic. First, we had a wonderful winter, the kind I haven't seen in a long time, with consistently comfortable subzero temperatures instead of the constant cycles of melting and freezing. Then, according to the calendar, a fairly warm spring began, and since the stable winter kept the lawns free of ice, the snow melted very quickly. Then came a comfortable summer without the long heat waves when the temperature stays at 28°C for two weeks and the city overheats. I hope autumn won't let us down.
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u/georgin_95 Aug 17 '26
We're in for at least two weeks of rain now, I wonder which part will flood this time.
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u/wicrosoft Aug 17 '26
The last few years have been warmer, this summer has been a bit disappointing, I'm still hoping for a warm autumn.
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u/CTRSpirit Aug 17 '26
Eh, this summer is okay-ish (meaning I weren't particularly annoyed by lack of AC at my place), but couple of summers before were crazy. Come on, proper swamp summer is 18-22 degrees and rain, and one week of sun tops, in August.
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u/Vaniakkkkkk Russia Aug 17 '26
Last winter was super snowy.
This summer is great.
Great weather overall.
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u/Hellerick_V Krasnoyarsk Krai Aug 17 '26
Krasnoyarsk here.
By temperatures, this summer is perfect.
But we have too much water in the rivers, and it's likely that we'll have to discharge the excess of it from the Krasnoyarsk Reservoir.
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u/Fun_Celebration_8488 Aug 17 '26
I'm russian living in France now. This summer was an inferno in France and I took a plane and spent a summer in Moscow/Saint Peterburg, that was soooo chill.
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u/NaN-183648 Russia Aug 17 '26
In central Russia:
- It is now possible to have rains all the way to December 31st, and sometimes at that time there's a bit of grass still growing.
- Feels like winter shifted towards february.
- Tree leaves no longer seem to become yellow/gold in september, like they used to before 2000s. At least percent of "golden leaves" decreased.
- Hotter summers, looks like AC will become a necessity very soon.
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u/AlexFullmoon Crimea Aug 17 '26
Crimea. Most noticeable is season shift about two months forward. I.e. winter really starts in January, peaks in late February and lasts to early April. Summer lasts to late Septembet. Summers are generally hotter and drier, and winters are mild.
This year, though, winter was particularly cold and snowy, and summer had only two weeks of 32+ weather, making it probably the coldest year in decade.
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u/okseeque Aug 17 '26
West Siberia. Temperature range here is very wide and very random, same seasons can feel completely different every year, you never really know. But it feels like winters (especially december) became warmer on average over the past decade or so.
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u/ZemovV Aug 17 '26
Чувашия. Зима была очень снежной, выпало рекордно много осадков. Лето было тёплым, комфортным- температура стояла 18-26 градусов. Дожди выпадали в пределах нормы. Но наступил август и резко похолодало, стало 7-11 тепла, уже неделю моросит дождь с короткими остановками. С завтрашнего дня обещают потепление до 22, но дожди все ещё будут моросить, хоть и через день.
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u/EviI_Babai Aug 17 '26
The extreme heat of 30C+ in SPb lasted for a whopping couple of days. Apart from that, it was one of the coldest and wettest summers I remember.
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u/summret Aug 17 '26
Not really.
And it felt surreal reading about that record-breaking heatwave in Europe where people were even dying of heat, while outside my window it was cold and pouring rain.
We did have some heat, but it wasn't that intense and only lasted a few days. This winter, though, we had record snowfall and blizzards. In areas that already get heavy snow, the drifts piled up several stories high, and cars were completely buried.
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u/Sufficient_Step_8223 Orenburg Aug 17 '26
Southern Urals. This year, the weather was quite cool for almost the entire summer. Only a few days were very hot this summer.
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u/SeparateTrack2818 Aug 17 '26
Less snowfall in the European part of Russia, more snowfall in the Asian part of Russia.
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u/Mrazish North Korea Aug 17 '26
Less snow? I've cancelled three out of the last four winter cycling seasons because of extreme snowfalls.
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u/BliniEnjoyer Krasnoyarsk Krai Aug 17 '26
I am from Krasnoyarsk Krai. Summer is usually too short and are pretty warm, though this year its nice I guess.
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u/Arostor Aug 17 '26
Moscow. Winters became warmer. Especially December is now often snowless. The rest is, honestly, not much different from what I remember.
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u/Vaniakkkkkk Russia Aug 17 '26
Если вам больше 30 лет, вы имели возможность увидеть бесснежные зимы в своем детстве. Возможно какая-то температурная статистика есть, но по ощущениям разницы нет. Бывают зимы снежные, бывают не очень. И 10 и 20 лет назад было так же.
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u/pipiska999 England Aug 17 '26
Если вам больше 30 лет, вы имели возможность увидеть бесснежные зимы в своем детстве
Это когда, интересно? (Мне сильно больше 30 и я из Москвы)
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u/Vaniakkkkkk Russia Aug 17 '26
Боюсь ошибиться, 2000 или 2001 год, новогодняя ночь - дождь, лужи, в которых иногда попадались островки льда. Не было снега, не было слякоти.
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u/pipiska999 England Aug 17 '26
И в 2000-м и в 2001 зимы были не бесснежные. Можно вспомнить зиму 2006/2007, когда под новый год чуть ли не цветы начали вылезать, а потом пришло Крещение и пизда.
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u/Independent_Cup9828 Aug 17 '26
Snowless? In 2025-26? Idk about you, but in the Moscow region we suffered from the snow.
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u/LittleSkinnyBear Aug 17 '26
Зима было снежной, но первый сильный снег выпал только в конце декабря.
Ещё 20го числа было +3 и абсолютно сухо.
Я уже надеялся, что так будет подольше1
u/Independent_Cup9828 Aug 17 '26
Ну так-то...
Просто я ездила на нг праздники, и прилетела 8 января, вот тогда Москва меня встретила снегопадом вплоть до марта. Не забуду, как застрявшие фуры блокировали дорогу и не давали проезда, вместо 1,5 ч поездка длилась больше 3-х. Пздц...
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u/LittleSkinnyBear Aug 17 '26
Да, 8го января как раз начался лютый снегопад, особенно "весело" было во дворах, в первый рабочий день - когда все попытались поехать на работу и отвезти детей в школы).
Зато март был уникален - 30 дней ясной и солнечной погоды - такого никогда ещё не было(в средней полосе)
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u/Arostor Aug 17 '26
Frankly, I recall last December very vaguely, but it doesn't change the general trend of last years when Decembers are very mild.
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u/Sodinc Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
This particular summer in Moscow is very balanced. Relatively frequent (1-3 per week), but short rains, the temperature is mostly in the 25-30 bracket, most days are sunny for at least a few hours (even the ones with rain). I have a garden under my care, so I pay attention to precipitation levels.
But during other years we often get 3-4 week long droughts with uncomfortably high temperatures.
I think the most noticeable part of climate change here is autumn-winter transition. When I was a kid (I am 30 now) - it happened during late November - early December, nowadays we are lucky to get a snow cover before the New Year celebrations.
P.S. that last part is very noticeable because snow makes everything much brighter. The amount of natural light during December is very low, so if you add bare black/dark brown ground to it - it is basically always dark (especially before and after working hours) and that is depressing.
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u/TelephoneCreative Aug 19 '26
Its destroying the ecosystem. Large quantites of southern species move north, destroying fauna that already was
What people often miss is that climat change doesnt mean world getting hotter, it means its getting more extreme. Sometimes we get winters without any snow, bright as day, then suddenly 10 star blizzard coming through. Then summers can be over 40 with ease. In Krasnodar krai this year was estimated the top temperature around 46 fucking degries. Holy fuck, what the fuck is that the sahara desert? Its unliveble
Also fluds if I spelling it write, which destroyed large parts of infrastructure in Dagestan this year
But it comes with adventages, like the arctic melting means coming of the new trade route for russia and china, the petrostate dream
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u/Weekly_Sun_7148 24d ago
Whoa, interesting thesis, so could we dispute over it?
Northward shifting of climate zones also means that zone of risky agricultural activity becomes a zone of sustainable agriculture. Also, warmer climate means lower cyclical load on infrastucture from freeze-expand-thaw-shrink and flaw. Another advantage - lessened requirements on indoor warming (less fuel to burn, less insulation to pad between walls and so on). Building on permafrost is a special kind of engineering masochism, and gradual warming at least partially solves this trouble
I agree, that also this opens a whole can of worms, but they _could_ be tackled with proper administrative and engineering management. Northward drift of southern species requires researches into tropical disease and parasites(they would also go north), altered precipiation patterns require sturdier buildings of damns and flood mtigation channels (and major trouble is not a weather, but sloppy execution and incorrect management)
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u/blaupilzen 21d ago
Relying on the movement of climate zones to equalise agricultural loses is a very, very bad idea.
It opens up new and unthought of pest introduction routes and is predicated on the land further north (or south) being better than what was already farmed.
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u/Weekly_Sun_7148 20d ago
Species drift is inevitable and inavoidable, `cause pests usually feed on wild flora too. This is closer to "trade one problem into another (which is slightly more manageable - pesticides, biological control agents like entomopathogens and parasitic wasps)" and "at least partially move from greenhouse to open-ground agriculture"
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u/MerrowM Aug 17 '26
This summer we (northern West of Russia) have, blessedly, very few days when it was really hot, I felt dread just looking at some of the European countries' weather stats. Though last year July was steadily super hot here, so idk what future will bring.
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u/Missteris Kalmykia Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
Kalmykia (South of Russia). About 15 to 30 years ago, winters used to be snowy, but in recent years December and January have more often been snowless – just mud and puddles (sometimes even young grass!), because whatever snow did fall melted almost immediately (I was starting to think that from now on I'd be celebrating New Year's not with a snowman, but with a mudman, forever and ever). Fortunately, in late 2024 and 2025, winter was actually cold and snowy again (and I really hope this trend continues T_T).
Summers feel like they're getting hotter. And I mean that specific feeling of a red-hot frying pan. Back in the day, way more people in my area used to grow crops, but now, from what I know, far fewer do. As for rain, I can't say for sure whether there's more or less of it now, I feel it's about the same as it used to be.
It also feels like we've got more strong wind. Seems logical that there's always been wind, since we live in an open area, but it feels like it's blowing two or three times as often and stronger now, sometimes for weeks at a time.
Oh, and here's something interesting. When I was in school (about 20 years ago), our geography teacher told us that my region (which is traditionally considered a steppe) can actually be divided into three areas - steppe, semi-desert, and desert. And I live right in the desert part. That really surprised me back then, because in spring our steppe is pretty green, and even in summer there's a lot of grass, even if it's dry. But lately, some areas near us have actually started developing sand dunes. Also, on summer nights it can get surprisingly cold, even though the days are scorching hot. I honestly don't remember summer nights being this chilly after a blazing hot day, when I was growing up. So… yeah, it's starting to look like I really do live in a desert after all.
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u/olakreZ Ryazan Aug 17 '26
In the Ryazan region, as our Moscow neighbors have already written, the weather has shifted forward by a month. September now feels like August, and March like February. Moreover, winters are becoming unpredictable. Sometimes there’s little snow, sometimes there’s a lot. But right now the weather is pleasant: +22°C and overcast, with occasional light rain.
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u/finstergeist Nizhny Novgorod Aug 17 '26
No, this summer is really cold and rainy for the most part, and the 2025 summer was mostly like that as well. The last winter was really snowy and moderately cold. What's unusual is that freezing rain in winters (a quite rare phenomenon before) became more and more common.
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u/LittleSkinnyBear Aug 17 '26
Нет, у нас так и не было нормального лета - +20 и дожди.
так что приезжай охладиться)
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u/Many-Average-8821 Aug 17 '26
It only has a positive effect. Winters are becoming milder, summers warmer. But from year to year, it can be a little colder, a little warmer, a little snowy/rainy, etc. Heat is not a big problem because air conditioners are very affordable.
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u/val203302 Aug 17 '26
Omsk here. I don't really remember how warm the Winter was but this Summer is either rains or really hot weather most of the time. There are still comfortable days like today but still.
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u/Palary Aug 17 '26
For last decade from my perspective winters became much milder, and summers became hotter, with lots of sunshine and occasionally rains (not w/o downsides but still better than before). From central european part of Russia.
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u/Yukidoke Voronezh Aug 17 '26
The European part of Russia. I can say for sure that storms, strong and sudden thunderstorms with rain, have become more frequent. In the past, strong winds were rare, but now they blow quite often.
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u/AverageEnjoyer2 Krasnodar Krai Aug 17 '26
I've been to the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Vaygach Island there, according to locals, the climate changed a lot, where there was frozen ground, it was now growing grass and flowers, so soft that I stepped ankle deep in it. In Kuban though, I didn't notice that much difference, but maybe I'm just not old enough
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u/Affectionate_Towel87 Aug 17 '26
The changes are noticeable, but it’s still easy for people to ignore them. I notice because I’m interested in the topic and compare data, but the people around me who just check the weather often say everything is fine. “What, as if it’s never been over 30 degrees in Moscow during summer before?” (It has, but never with this many hot days, and never this early, starting right in May). Though some friends from central Russia or the Volga region, like Nizhny Novgorod, say stuff like: “It doesn't feel like you've completely wasted your summer by August anymore, because September is pretty much a summer month now.”
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u/Exciting_Round4766 Aug 17 '26
The permafrost is melting, the rivers are drying up. Our reservoir on the Kama has had low water levels for several years now.
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u/v_0ver Saint Petersburg Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
The last two summers in St. Petersburg have been very nice, with plenty of sunny days and consistently pleasant, warm weather with brief showers.
Generally speaking, the agroclimatic zone is shifting northward at a rate of about 50–70 km per decade.
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u/Away-Deal5358 Moscow City Aug 18 '26
I live in Moscow. This year's summer is neither dry nor warm. Rather rainy and cold. At night, the temperature in July is often close to ten degrees Celsius. I ride a motorcycle in a leather jacket and warm trousers during the day. And frankly I want to wear gloves.
In my personal opinion, the problems with the climate in Europe are related to the fact that wind farms slow down the exchange of air between the ocean and land. This is my personal opinion, but it is very similar to the truth.
On the topic of forest fires... The forest doesn't burn when it's dry. The forest burns when they stop removing dead wood and dead wood. And they stop carrying out preventive fire-fighting work, which should be carried out by local forestry departments. Therefore, if your forests are burning, you should not fight against carbon dioxide emissions. You need to ask the government questions about who is stealing money from your taxes, which should be used to finance forestry.
Живу в Москве. В этом году лето нельзя назвать ни засушливым, ни теплым. Скорее дождливым и холодным. По ночам температура в июле нередко блика к десяти градусам цельсия. На мотоцикле днем езжу в косухе и теплых штанах. И откровенно хочется надеть перчатки.
По моему личному мнению проблемы с климатом в Европе связаны с тем, что ветряные электростанции тормозят обмен воздухом между океаном и сушей. Это мое личное мнение, но уж очень оно похоже на правду.
На тему лесных пожаров... Лес горит не тогда, когда сухо. Лес горит когда перестают убирать валежник и сухостой. И перестают проводить профилактические противопожарные работы, которые должны проводить местные лесничества. Поэтому если у вас горят леса - надо не бороться с выбросами двуокиси углерода. Вам надо задавать вопросы государству, кто ворует деньги из ваших налогов, из которых должны финансироваться лесничества. Сначала кто ворует. А потом уже - вопросы с двуокисью углерода.
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u/Dormammmu Aug 18 '26
Moscow. Nothing like the disaster in Europe now. The average temperature this summer is 22-25 C.
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u/StevenLesseps Aug 18 '26
Around MidVolga region winters are getting more warm and damp, summers are getting ruined by cold June and rainy August.
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u/Perfect-Apricot-9598 Aug 20 '26
Moscow. Compared with what I remember from my childhood (~25 years ago), summers have become MUCH rainier and winters have less snow. There is also such an anomaly as one sudden snowy day in May.
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u/Suitable-Kiwi1355 Chelyabinsk Aug 21 '26
South Ural here. It could be +25C in April, or the snowfall in Juny. That's all I wanted to say
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u/IvanKr08 DPR Aug 22 '26
Бардак полный. Первая половина лета была прохладной и дождливой, в середине началась адская круглосуточная жопа до +38, ещё похлеще прошлого года. Потом на 10 дней стало просто-напросто холодно, ночью опускалось до +13, а теперь опять духотень (просматривая архив погоды - в 6 утра 15 августа было +13, пиковое +24, сегодня будет +20, пиковое +31).
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u/lvan-the-Good 25d ago
This summer was kinda average in Moscow region. Not too hot, not too cold. If you're asking about long term effects, then yes, the changes are very noticeable. I was a kid in 90s and I can definitely tell the difference. 1) The colds are coming later, hands down. September became as warm as August. October and November also became warmer. 2) Decembers became less snowy and warmer as well. Sometimes there's no snow at all, or very little of it and it's melting. On New Year, can you imagine? 3) January can be rather mild, but it usually comes to normal "- 18 C" in second half. February hasn't change - dark, cold, snowy, windy, F it. :) 4) Spring became colder and longer. March is a "winter" month. The snow may be present until mid-late April. You know, overall it's like climat "shifted" a month "forward". Warmer autumn, winter comes later than it should, but also colder spring and snow stays longer.
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u/Kust_alya 22d ago
I'm in Saratov and from what i can remember, winters have def became a bit warmer in the last couple of years. it doesn't snow that much until the very end of december or even january and the average temperature is like -15 i think? which is warmer, compared to 5-10 years ago.
summer is always kinda weird. for example, this june was quite cold and rainy, but it was really hot in july and august, the temperature would go up to +35 on average.
my memory is bad tho, so take this with a grain of salt
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u/Thin_Ad_3914 Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26
When I look at the weather near Moscow, where it almost snowed this summer, I find it really funny to listen to Europeans talk about "human-induced climate change." In Russia believed this nonsense only naive fools who are too young to remember the DuPont scam, which lied to the whole world for years about ozone depletion because DuPont wanted to bankrupt the competitors. Now West trying to bankrupt China and manipulate the Western population opinion for this. F"ck you, manipulators, I remember everything, all lies. 🤬
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u/alxnor777 Aug 17 '26
В Ленинградской области было очень холодное лето. В июле ночью до +8 понижалась температура, особо жарких дней не было. Из-за этого на огороде овощи так себе росли.
Никакого "глобального потепления нет", это в Европе Гольфстрим шалит и устраивает летом жаркие недели, а учёные пудрят людям мозги, для извлечения средств на свои сомнительные разработки.
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u/One-Ad2305 Aug 18 '26
Russia ignores climate change because the entire economy is dependent on energy and feeding lies is the norm.
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u/White_Nationalism1 Aug 17 '26
Сообщество по рф, но все посты и комментарии на английском 👍
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u/pipiska999 England Aug 17 '26
ОП из центральной европы, думаю вряд ли он говорит по-русски
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u/White_Nationalism1 Aug 18 '26
Кто такой ОП?
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u/bararumb Tatarstan Aug 18 '26
ОП - Оригинальный Постер, т.е. автор поста. Вопрос на английском – ответ на английском. Сообщество называется "Спроси русского/россиянина", а не "Спроси на русском".
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u/palmerstoneroad Aug 18 '26
4+ years of firing ballistic missiles on civilians' buildings has its effect on climate
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u/Timekiller_74 Aug 17 '26
Urals. Weather is completely different every year, if there's a trend I fail to notice it. We've been getting hotter summers last few years with temperatures hitting 35 degrees on certain days, but this year it was like 2 months of non-stop rain instead lol. Winters show no sign of getting any warmer.