Frosts and a blizzard came to Moscow

A strong wind with gusts of 15 m/s/s and higher is expected in Moscow and the Moscow Region on Sunday, Interfax was told in the Hydrometeorological Bureau of Moscow and the Moscow Region. “In addition, a blizzard is possible in the region in some places. The temperature in the afternoon will be minus 5 - minus 7 degrees,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

“In connection with gusts of wind up to 12-17 meters per second, damage to power lines, large-format advertising structures, collapse of poorly fortified structures is possible. All this can lead to fabric on the roads,” the press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies in Moscow on Sunday said. Rescuers urge Muscovites to be attentive and careful on the streets.

The Portal "Meteonovosti.ru" warns that on the night of Monday in the east of the Moscow Region, the air temperature in places can fall to minus 20 degrees. So low this season, the temperature in the metropolitan region has not yet dropped. On the night on Wednesday, according to the forecast of the portal, in the east of the Moscow Region in places can freeze to minus 25.

The first time from the beginning of winter, the temperature in Moscow, according to the VVC station, dropped below minus 10 degrees on January 20. On the night of Sunday, frost in the capital has been gaining up to 15 degrees.

The reason for the strengthening of frost was the Siberian anticyclone. In the coming days, its influence in the center of European Russia will intensify, frosty weather will be held. Only on Monday and on the night of Tuesday a little snow is possible. On other days without precipitation, variable cloudiness.

The daily temperature at the coming week will be mainly in the range from minus 11 to minus 16 degrees. After a long period of positive anomalies, the temperature in Moscow will drop below the climatic norm by 3-5 degrees.