Forecasters predicted snow and temperatures up to +5 degrees in Moscow on December 12.

Cloudy, rain turning into snow, sleet sticking in places, a blizzard, heavy ice in the evening — this weather awaits residents of the capital region on Friday, December 12. The corresponding forecast is published on the website of the Hydrometeorological Center.

The air temperature in Moscow will range from +3 to +5 degrees during the day. At night, the thermometer will drop to -7.

In the Moscow region, it will be from +1 to +6 degrees during the day, at night the temperature may drop to -9 degrees.

A westerly wind with a speed of 6-11 m/s is expected.

Atmospheric pressure will be 739-745 mmHg.

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The first frosts were recorded in the capital on December 10. Negative temperatures were also observed throughout the Moscow region, and Kashira became the coldest point in the region, where the minimum temperature was -2.1 degrees.

Anatoly Tsygankov, head of the Russian Hydrometeorological Service's crisis Management Department, said on December 8 that changeable weather with noticeable temperature fluctuations is expected in Moscow this week. The temperature background will generally remain above the climatic norm and will correspond to the November figures, but the weather will be unstable.

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