Moscow was hit by heavy snowfall

Heavy snowfall hitMoscow on Saturday, November 23. Izvestia shares footage of the bad weather.

The video shows that the snow comes in small flakes and does not melt. Citizens have to clean their cars, slush is formed on the asphalt. At the same time bicycle couriers and employees of public utilities do not stop their work.

Chief expert of the Moscow meteobureau Tatyana Pozdnyakova reported in her Telegram-channel that in the second half of the night of November 23 the city was in the precipitation zone of the southern cyclone and within three or four hours in the capital formed a snow cover, by 9:00 its height reached a height of 3-4 cm. During the day, according to meteorologist, precipitation will continue, in some places snow will be interspersed with rain.

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On the eve, November 22, Pozdnyakova said that the cyclone, under the influence of which fell Moscow, came from the Balkans, it is called "Caetano". Such cyclones enter the territory of Russia both in summer and winter, and it is with them that most of the precipitation in the region is associated.

Prior to that, on November 21, the scientific director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand told in a conversation with "Izvestia" that from November 25 in Moscow will begin a long cool period and the temperature will be three degrees below normal. According to the forecaster, the first half of next week will be -4 to -9 degrees at night and -3 to -4 degrees during the day.