Vilfand urged not to expect snowdrifts in Moscow in January
The scientific head of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand urged Moscow residents not to expect snowdrifts in January.
In a conversation with the agency of city news "Moscow" on Monday, January 20, it became clear that, according to forecasts, the air temperature will be high. By the end of the week it will exceed the norm by 7-8 degrees.
"At this temperature, snow does not fall because of thawing weather," explained the forecaster.
According to him, the winter weather will last until Wednesday, and then the thaw will come again. In addition, the pressure on Tuesday, January 21, will be as high as possible and will be about 760 mm Hg, writes Life.ru. On Wednesday, up to 4 mm of precipitation will fall, RT specifies. On Thursday night the thermometer columns will show -4...-6 degrees, in the afternoon - up to -3 degrees.
On Friday, a significant increase in temperature is expected. At night the thermometer columns will show -1...-6 degrees, during the day - from -3 to +1 degrees. On Saturday, the thaw is expected to return: daytime temperatures will be -2...+3 degrees. On Sunday night it is forecasted -3...+2 degrees. The snow that will fall on Wednesday will melt, reports "Moscow 24".
Also on January 20, leading specialist of the information agency "Meteonovosti" Tatiana Pozdnyakova told "Izvestia" that almost all the week the capital region will be in the zone of increased atmospheric pressure. According to her, such weather with a large positive anomaly of air temperature and small precipitation in mixed phase is likely to persist until the end of January.
Director of the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University, Professor Vladimir Chub in a conversation with aif.ru on January 20 said that the appearance of primroses due to thaw is not an anomalous phenomenon. He noted that, as a rule, it is not dangerous for plants. He explained that plants do not bloom all the leaves and buds at once, so in the spring they will green up from spare buds.
