Forecasters predicted clouds and light rain in Moscow on May 18.

Cloudy, light rain, moderate in places — such weather awaits residents of the capital region on Sunday, May 18. The corresponding forecast is published on the website of the Hydrometeorological Center.

The air temperature in Moscow will range from +19 to +21 degrees during the day. At night, the thermometer will drop to +10.

In the Moscow region, it will be from +17 to +22 degrees during the day, and at night the temperature may drop to +7.

A southeasterly wind with a speed of 5-10 m/s is expected, with gusts of up to 15 m/s in some places.

The atmospheric pressure will be 743 mmHg.

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Temperature fluctuations can also lead to the loss of a large part of the harvest of fruit trees in the south of the country.

Earlier, on May 16, Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, said that the night in Moscow on May 16 was the warmest since the beginning of this month. He noted that, according to the city's base weather station at VDNKh, the minimum air temperature in Moscow did not fall below +10.4 degrees.