[Regnum] The coldest day since the beginning of the year has arrived in Moscow — at night, the thermometer at the VDNKh weather station showed 9.5 degrees below zero. This was reported by Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center,in the Telegram channel “Weather from the Chief.”
Golly. WinterAccording to the weather forecaster, February will have its final say. By mid-month, winter weather returned to the central and northwestern regions of the European part of Russia.
"The previous night in the capital was the coldest since the beginning of the year. According to the metropolis's base weather station, VDNKh, the thermometer dropped to -9.5°," the report says.
Before that, the strongest frost was observed on February 12 — minus 8.7 degrees. Now the snow cover has grown to 2 cm, which is the highest figure since January 18, Leus added.
Frosts intensified in the Moscow region - in Elektrostal the thermometer showed -11.9°C.
In the coming days, the capital will be 3-5 degrees colder than the climatic norm. The peak of the frost wave will probably be on February 17, when at night in Moscow it will be up to -12…-14°, and in the region - up to -17°, the specialist predicted.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, earlier the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand predicted that in mid-February the air temperature in the center of European Russia will fall below the climatic norm for the first time since the beginning of the year. He also noted that 2025 could be among the three warmest years on the planet.
On February 9, Yevgeny Tishkovets, a specialist at the Phobos weather center, said that the last winter month is preparing a surprise for Muscovites and will "work off" snowfalls and frosts for the entire season. In the last ten days of February, 100% of the ten-day precipitation norm is expected - about 9-13 mm, he specified.