Available water reserves in fields and dangerous agrometeorological phenomena in the Chelyabinsk Region in the summer of 2023

The article presents and describes data from the Chelyabinsk Center for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring on available water reserves in fields of the Chelyabinsk Region and on the prevailing dangerous agrometeorological phenomena in the summer of 2023. In the second decade of May, the amount of available water in the arable soil layer was less than the average long-term and last year’s values. From the first decade of June to the second decade of August, the territory of the Chelyabinsk Region had different moisture gradations, which corresponded to the average long-term indicators and were characterized as satisfactory and optimal. From the third decade of August to the second decade of September, almost the entire territory of the Chelyabinsk Region was affected by a dangerous agrometeorological phenomenon – excessive water content in the soil.