This past weekend, the weather in Belarus showed its capricious side. Due to an active atmospheric front, thunderstorms, rain, and gusty winds swept across the country.
Saturday, August 1: the front moved in from the northwest, bringing brief showers and thunderstorms to the western regions.
Saturday night into Sunday: the peak of convective activity! Thunderstorms rumbled across most of the country, with heavy downpours reported in the northwest.
Sunday, August 2: precipitation gradually weakened.
During the daytime on August 1 and the night of August 2, the precipitation was accompanied in places by strong gusty winds (15 m/s or more).
In terms of precipitation amounts, the northwestern half of the republic received the most:
In some areas of the northwestern half of the country, up to 32% of the monthly norm fell.
The record-breaker was Grodno: in just two days, 33 mm of precipitation fell there — that is 58% of the entire August norm!
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