Forecasters predicted partly cloudy weather and up to -10 degrees in Moscow on January 16.

Cloudy with some clarifications, no precipitation — such weather awaits residents of the capital region on Friday, January 16. The corresponding forecast is published on the website of the Hydrometeorological Center.

The air temperature in Moscow will range from -8 to -10 degrees during the day. At night, the thermometer will drop to -17.

In the Moscow region, it will be from -8 to -13 degrees during the day, and at night the temperature may drop to -18, in some places to -23 degrees.

A light wind is expected.

Atmospheric pressure will range from 766 to 769 mmHg.

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Tatiana Pozdnyakova, a leading specialist at the Meteonosti news agency, told Izvestia on January 15 that an unusual optical phenomenon, the "false sun", can be observed in the sky during the winter months. This effect, as explained by the expert, occurs when several circumstances occur at once, which include reduced air humidity parameters (for a "false sun" to occur, it must be dry) and the crystallization of water vapor, which usually occurs at high altitude. When all the factors coincide, a person gets the impression that he sees two stars at the same time, sometimes even noticing halos in the sky — luminous rings located around the Sun.

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