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A strong hurricane swept over Siberia
Strong hurricanes, hail, thunderstorms took place in Siberia. The most powerful - in the Tomsk and Novosibirsk regions. The inhabitants of the regions were massively left without light, trees were felled in cities and wires in electric networks were torn. Many streets were flooded, and the storms failed with the amount of water.
In Tomsk, precipitation replaced abnormally hot weather. Now meteorologists even predict frosts and several days of hail and strong wind. On social networks, residents posted photos of how the weather changed in the city. Eyewitnesses wrote about torn roofs, flooded streets and dusty storms.
The press service of the Tomsk City Hall said that at present, city services are eliminating the consequences of a thunderstorm, in particular, they remove the fallen branches of trees that blocked travel in different parts of the city.
The Ural hurricane reached Tomsk. May 26, 2020. https://t.co/i95mphalqy pic.twitter.com/ddcjc0nkvl
- Moscow Weather (@Weatherofmoscow) May 26, 2020
In Novosibirsk , mass disconnects of electricity were also held today, more than 40 thousand inhabitants remained without it. The emergency and recovery work involved 28 brigades consisting of 96 people and 19 units of special equipment, officials said. And weather forecasters announced that the storm would last until May 27. The Novosibirsk Ministry of Emergencies announced an emergency warning in the wind and thunderstorms.
Last night, such a hurricane was in Yekaterinburg . In the morning it became known that several people died during the storm.
Yesterday, a powerful hurricane was held in the Sverdlovsk region, which took the lives of at least four people. Local residents publish videos with flying roofs and bending trees on social networks. https://t.co/v3ba5kl1lb pic.twitter.com/vdzauas0HD
- media2 (@smi_2) May 26, 2020
In the All -Russian Research Institute of Civil Defense and Emergencies, they said that in the middle lane of Russia and in Siberia this summer could become more hurricanes and tornadoes. According to the forecast, the occurrence of other dangerous convective phenomena is likely. The reasons are the current meteorological environment and global climate change. Scientists indicated that the reliability of the forecast also indicates a hurricane in Chita on May 13.
Earlier, a climatologist, senior researcher at the Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory, Andrei Kiselev predicted that the summer of 2020 would be accompanied by destructive natural cataclysms.