Summary:

The object of the study was the thermal conditions in the southern part of the Krakowsko-Częstochowska Upland. The analysis of the influence of synoptic situations on the value of air temperature deviation from perennial mean. Recent studies more often analyze standard meteorological elements as well as synoptic situations which are characterized by specific spacious pressure distribution and the direction of air mass. Atmospheric circulation in comparison to geographical factors of climate is a process variable in time. Therefore the studies which aim to describe differen-tiation of the climate elements in current synoptic situations are so important. The types of synoptic situations described by T. Niedzwiedz were used for the Upper Vistula River Basin. Also the results of the air temperature observations carried from 1991 to 2005 at the meteorological stations in Kraków-Balice, Gar-lica Murowana and Ojców. The stations represent the most typical forms of the area i.e. flattened val-ley (Kraków-Balice), hill (Garlica Murowana) and deep valley (Ojców). The research showed that in the study area anticyclonic situations (56%) occurred more often than cyclonic situations (44%). The most frequent situations were: Ka (13,%), Bc (11,8%), Wa (9,5%) and Wc (8,7%). The least frequent were: Ec (1,3%), Cc (0,7%) and X (1,7%) and NEc (1,8%). As the research showed the deviation of mean and extreme temperature at the stations was characterized by high differentiation of absolute value during all the seasons of the year.