The past Sunday did not beat the temperature record

On Sunday, January 12, 2020, several St. Petersburg media , citing a meteorologist of the Phobos Center, Mikhail Leus and wrote that a new daily record of the temperature maximum may be set in the city. However, this did not happen, Les himself said on his page on Monday.

According to the meteorologist, this year on January 12, the air temperature reached +4.7 degrees. And the daily record belongs to January 12, 2009, then the temperature was +5.1 degrees. “So the previous achievement <...> will be valid for at least another year,” he concluded.

The winter of 2020 in St. Petersburg is very warm: the temperature never dropped below –5 degrees and was mainly above zero. Due to warm weather, flowers bloom , butterflies wake up, kidneys swell on the trees. There is still no ice on the Gulf of Finland and Ladoga, which is why the offspring of Nerus may suffer. "Paper" said what is happening with the weather.