Abnormal heat came to Yakutia

Abnormally warm weather has set in Yakutsk. It will stand until the end of the calendar winter. These days, in the capital of Yakutia, the air temperature is 8-10 degrees above long-term values.

As Tatiana Marshalik, deputy head of the Yakut UGMS and head of the Hydrometeorological Center, told IA YakutiaMedia, on Tuesday, February 24, the daytime temperature rose to -12 degrees. It will get even warmer on Wednesday. It is forecast to reach -5 degrees in the afternoon.

For comparison, according to the norms, the night temperature at the end of January at night is -37 degrees, during the daytime — 25 degrees below zero.

Such warm weather will last in Yakutia until the end of February.

Earlier, Tatiana Pozdnyakova, a leading specialist at the Meteonosti news agency, reported that relative warming is expected in Moscow by early March. According to the forecaster, the temperature regime in the capital will be almost the same on Tuesday and Wednesday. "The minimum temperature in Moscow on February 25 is from -3 to -5, the daytime temperature is from -1 to -3. That is, the air temperature will be slightly higher than the climatic norm," she said.

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