Summer in Ukraine will become a month longer in the next 20 years

In the next 20 years, the length of summer in Ukraine may increase by almost a month compared to the beginning of the century. Vira Balabukh, candidate of geographical sciences, head of the department of applied meteorology and climatology of the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, told about this in an interview with RBC. "In the next 20 years, the duration of the summer in the vast majority of the territory of Ukraine may increase by one week, in another scenario - by two weeks, compared to the beginning of the century. In the middle of the century, summer may last two or three weeks longer and almost a month under a different scenario," she said. According to the scientist, the further increase in air temperature will continue to cause the change of seasons: the length of summer will increase, and the length of winter will decrease. She emphasized that in Ukraine over the past 60 ...