PRECIPITATIONS AND FALL OF AIR TEMPERATURE AGAIN FORECASTED IN ARMENIA ON AUGUST 20-23

Noyan Tapan
Aug 13, 2009

YEREVAN, AUGUST 13, NOYAN TAPAN. No precipitations in weather are
forecasted on August 14-19 in Armenia, with the exception of northern
regions. Some precipitations and fall of air temperature is again
forecasted in Armenia on August 20-23. Then no precipitations and
normal air temperature is forcasted up to the end of August. Director
of ArmHidroMed Operative Hydro-Meteorological Center Zaruhi Petrosian
reported this at the conference on August 13. According to her, the
temperature in valley regions will be 30-32 and in mountain regions
25-26 degree during the last 10 days of August. The temperature in
Lake Sevan will be 24-25 degree on August 24-25.

During those days the water temperature will be 19-20 degree.

Z. Petrosian noted that the temperature in the Republic in July
was below 0.5 degree from the normal temperature, at the beginning
of August the temperature was below 1-2 degree from the normal
and recently it was 5-6 degrees below the normal temperature. The
precipitations in July were 2.5-3.5 times over the norm and in separate
places, especially in Ararat valley they were 4-5 times over the norm.

It was also noted that such low temperature in summer was also
registered in 1937, 1960, 1963, 1992.