Vilfand advised Muscovites not to wait for the velvet season.

There will be no more velvet season in Moscow this year. This was announced on August 24 by the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia Roman Vilfand.

"There will be no more velvet season <...> in the Moscow region. The velvet season refers to a situation when the water and air temperatures are comfortable, not very hot, and approximately the same. Now Zvenigorod [has a temperature of] +16 degrees, in the south of the Moscow region — +18 degrees, and in many tributaries of Moscow — +14-15 degrees," the meteorologist told TASS.

Vilfand explained that the cold nights are to blame for everything — in Moscow the temperature drops below +10 degrees, which is why water bodies cool down quickly.

Imperfect summer month: how is the beginning of autumn expected

The heat in Central Russia will return only at the end of August and will remain at the beginning of September, meteorologists believe.

Earlier, on August 23, Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, said that despite the decrease in temperature in Moscow, it was too early to talk about the beginning of a climatic autumn. Meteorologists predict a significant increase in temperature in the last two days of August.

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