A sharp cooling is expected in the Urals and Siberia, 30-degree frosts will return to Yakutia and Taimyr. This was announced on Saturday, April 8, by the scientific director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand.
“For example, in Abakan, Khakassia, the temperature on Friday was 13-15 degrees, on Saturday afternoon it was already around zero, the maximum value. And so in the Omsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo regions, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Urals, in the Kurgan, Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk regions. Everywhere there is a sharp drop in temperature, ”he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
Also, frosts down to -33 degrees are predicted in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, down to -26 – in the Khanty-Mansiysk. In the Tomsk and Kemerovo regions, the temperature will drop by -16…-19 degrees, in the Altai Territory – by -9…-11.
According to Vilfand, the most severe frosts are promised in Taimyr – here frosts can reach 35 degrees below zero.
April 7 Roman Vilfand predicted the May weather in Moscow next week. Warming up to +16…+18 degrees is expected in the capital, which is 4-6 degrees above the norm.
On the same day, the Hydrometeorological Center allowed Moscow drivers to change their tires to summer tires. As Vilfand clarified, now the minimum temperatures in the capital are recorded only at 3-4 am. However, as the sun rises, the temperature begins to rise.
