In winter a direct solar radiation is of zero or almost zero value. The weather Most peculiar feature of the weather in the Kola Peninsula is its instability and sharp changeability, stipulated by frequent change of air masses and cyclone and fronts' travel. As a whole the weather in the Kola Peninsula heterogeneous and depends much on the distance from the sea. In the mountains the thermal regime drops by 0.5 per each 100m when coming up. The atmosphere falls range from 340 to 640 mm.
Rains predominate in summer.
Average amount of snowpack in plains comes to 25-70cm, and in the mountains to 150cm. Real spring comes at late April and early May all over around the Kola Peninsula. But sometimes warm weather changes for cold and it often snows. Summer in the region is short, about 2.5 months, cool and wet. Autumn here usually comes early and it often rains.