Moscow costs more than a day in traffic jams, dozens of flights are detained, utilities will remove snow for at least three days. The main thing about the consequences of snowfall

In Moscow, three quarters of the monthly rainfall fell a little more than a day . The snowfall, which began on the night of February 12, continued with small breaks all on Friday, on the night of Saturday and the whole Saturday day. For Friday, 9 millimeters of precipitation fell, the next night - another 15 millimeters. The height of the snow cover at the weather station at VDNH on the morning of February 13 was 56 centimeters, in some areas the depth of snowdrifts reached 65-70 centimeters.

The city has been in traffic jams from Friday, they did not stop even at night . On the afternoon of February 13, until the beginning of the evening hour, the peak, according to Yandex.prob, the intensity of congestion reached the maximum 10 points. In the middle of the night on Saturday, traffic jams were 7 points - in ordinary times, such intensity was observed in the evening of the working day; The main congestion at night were formed on the Moscow Ring Road due to the stuck trucks, some of the cars spent more than 12 hours in traffic jams. At the time of writing this note, the seven -time traffic jams are preserved.

More than a hundred flights were detained in airports . The most difficult situation is in Domodedovo. There, according to the Yandex.Secractions service, 84 flights were detained and 15 more were canceled, the arrival time of some flights was also changed. In the airport building in anticipation of its flights there are hundreds of passengers. In Sheremetyevo and Vnukovo, the situation is much better - 18 and 14 flights are delayed, respectively.

Snowfall should end by midnight on February 14 . Initially, weather forecasters said that it would continue until Sunday in the evening, but later they clarified their forecasts: in the afternoon of February 14, at times there will be only slight snow. “True, tomorrow's small snow will also be unpleasant: gusts of wind are predicted to 15 m/s, so these small grains will bring discomfort,” said Roman Wilfand, the supervisor of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center. The snowfall will stop completely on Monday-an anticyclone with abnormally cold weather will come to Moscow, the temperature will be 10-13 degrees below normal.

The authorities say that it will take three days to clean snow . Communal services work in an intensified mode - as the deputy mayor of the city of Peter Biryukov stated, the streets are cleared of 60 thousand workers and wipers with the help of 13.5 thousand units of snowpit; For employees, field kitchens and heating points are deployed. In the first day of snowfall from the streets, according to the authorities, about 1.1 million cubic meters of snow were removed. The Ministry of Emergencies reported that rescuers removed more than 180 trucks from under the snow on the roads of Moscow and the region.

Grigory Levchenko