[Regnum] Moscow could be blanketed in snow as early as early next week, on November 2. Alexander Ilyin, a forecaster at the Meteo forecasting center, toldRegnum News Agency on Tuesday, October 27.
As early as the first days of November, summer tires will be unsafe to drive on Moscow roads due to the first snowfall. Drivers are advised to switch to winter tires by the end of October.
"The forecast already includes snowfall starting November 2-3. By the end of the first ten-day period, snowfall should be so abundant that a snow cover will even form. It's best to 'change your shoes' this coming weekend, " Ilyin noted.
A significant cold snap will also arrive with the start of November. Frosts are possible in Moscow by the middle of next week.
"November will start off quite like November. Daytime temperatures will drop to between 3 and 8 degrees Celsius. At night, it will start to freeze, and by the middle of the first ten days of November, it will drop to between -1 and -6 degrees Celsius," Ilyin added.
Earlier, Tatyana Pozdnyakova, chief specialist at the Moscow Meteorological Bureau, told Regnum News Agency that the first snow in Moscow and the Moscow region would likely appear in the first ten days of November, but a stable snow cover might not be established until early December.
In the Moscow region and central Russia, the first autumn frosts were recorded on the night of September 17. According to Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, the temperature dropped to -0.1 degrees Celsius.