Forecasters predicted +11 degrees and rain for Easter in Moscow

Cloudy weather with a slight warming is expected in Moscow on Easter. Anatoly Tsygankov, head of the Crisis Management Department at the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation, announced this on Monday, April 6.

"Sunday night — -1 to +4, cloudy, light precipitation at times. Sunday afternoon cloudy, light short-term rain, +6...+11 degrees," the forecaster told the Moscow City News agency.

He noted that the city is expected to warm up by Easter on a relatively cold Thursday, but the weather will remain cool compared to last week.

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An extreme situation is possible in the Ryazan and Penza regions, as well as in Tatarstan and Mordovia.

Earlier in the day, Tatiana Pozdnyakova, a leading specialist at the Meteonosti news agency, said that relatively warm weather would remain in Moscow at the beginning of the week, but by Thursday, April 9, a sharp cold snap, precipitation and increased winds were expected.

In turn, Alexander Ilyin, a forecaster at the Meteo forecasting center, told RT that cloudy weather is expected in the capital all week. He noted that from the middle of the week, the probability of wet snow from Wednesday to Friday is quite high — 85-95%. 360.ru .

On April 3, Pozdnyakova said that the alternation of heat and cold waves is a common phenomenon for April, and the fact that cool weather is coming now, in the first half of the month, is even better than if it had happened in early May.

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