Moscow city services put on high alert due to bad weather

Moscow city services have been put on high alert due to the expectation of heavy rain on April 1 and 2. This was announced on March 31 by the Deputy mayor of the capital for Housing and Communal Services and landscaping, Peter Biryukov.

He said that, according to meteorologists, up to 70% of the monthly precipitation rate could fall in the city. It is also possible to increase the wind with gusts up to 14 m/s.

"Due to the unfavorable forecast, all city services have been placed on high alert. Measures are being taken to protect residential and non—residential buildings, transport and trade facilities, and buildings under construction from wind gusts," Biryukov quotes the Telegram channel of the Moscow Municipal Economy Complex.

Instructions on the preparation of emergency power supplies were issued to the power grid organizations of the capital. Employees and equipment of Mosvodokanal will be on duty on the streets of the city, and emergency crews of engineering companies and prefectures of administrative districts have been switched to round-the-clock mode.

"We ask citizens to be extremely careful outside in bad weather, not to hide under trees and not to park cars near them," wrote the Complex of Urban Economy.

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The air temperature in the regions will vary greatly from day to day.

Earlier in the day, Tatiana Pozdnyakova, a leading specialist at the Meteonosti news agency, told Izvestia that cloudy weather with rain would prevail in Moscow almost until the end of the week. She added that Muscovites will have to return to warmer clothes.