Climat and nature of Kazakhstan

Climate and nature of Kazakhstan

Winter naturally starts with continuous snow cover from the north of the country in November and can last as long as 5 months up to March. The coldest month in Kazakhstan is January. The lowest temperatures are characteristic for the northeastern part where frosts can reach -54C while the southern temperatures are rare to fall lower than -30C.

Spring comes as early as February to southern areas and then slowly makes its way through to the north. It takes 1 to 1,5 months for Spring to reach northern parts of Kazakhstan. While the south is getting on with spring planting, the north can still be covered with ice and can be having winter blizzards

Summers start in May in the south and can last about five months. The air temperature can go up to 38C in the north and 46C in the south with low humidity. The weather in the western steppes is mostly dry and hot, while it is very rainy and warm in the plains of the east.

Autumn arrives by September and slowly spreads down towards the south. By October it is in full gear all over Kazakhstan. You will get more cloudy, rainy and windy days in most parts of Kazakhstan. Semi-desert zones will have the first freezing weathers in October. In the desert areas you might still have sunny, hot and dry weather in October and November.

Nature of Kazakhstan

All across the 1800 km-long «vertical line» that separates southern and northern confines of Kazakhstan one landscape zone replaces another: forest-and-steppe, steppe, semi-desert and desert ones.

In Kazakhstan there grow over 6,000 species of plants (of which 535 grow only here) and on its vast space one can come across almost 500 species of birds, animals (178 spcs), reptiles (49 spcs), amphibia (12 spcs), fish (107 spcs)

           Snow Leopard or irbis

       Golden eagle

            Flamingo

      Tian-Shan Mountains

         Caspian sea

                Burabai

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