Cloudy, light snow, sleet and air temperatures down to zero degrees – this weather awaits the capital on Saturday, February 4. The corresponding forecast is published on the website of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center.
The air temperature in Moscow will vary from -2 to 0 degrees during the day, and from -5 to -3 at night.
Wind of variable directions is predicted during the day at a speed of 2–7 m/s, at night a northerly wind at a speed of 3–8 m/s is expected.
Atmospheric pressure will be 749-753 mm Hg.
Earlier, on February 2, Yandex.Weather analysts predicted light snow and cold weather for the coming weekend in the capital. It was noted that on Saturday morning, Muscovites expect light rainfall. More snow is expected on Sunday. The average daily temperature in the capital will be -4 degrees, and in the evening it will drop to -5 degrees.
Prior to that, on January 30, Tatyana Pozdnyakova, a leading specialist of the Meteonovosti information portal, told Izvestia that the air temperature in Moscow next week would be about 5-6 degrees above the climatic norm, while cooling was expected in the region at the end of the week. According to her, in the coming days cloudy weather with precipitation in the form of light snow will prevail in the capital.