The Urals will be under the influence of a powerful cyclone with snowfall and wind 

The Urals will be covered by a powerful southern cyclone. It will bring heavy snowfall and gale force winds to the region, which will reach speeds of 24 m/s. Bad weather will hit a vast area from Ufa to Salekhard.

According to forecaster Ilya Vinstein, quoted by the news agency " <url>", the peak of the cyclone's development will be in the Perm Region, the atmospheric pressure in its center may drop to 980 hectopascals.

The heaviest snowfall will be on the western slope of the Ural Mountains. Up to 20 mm of precipitation in the form of snow will fall in the south of the Perm Region, and up to 65 mm in the north, the agency writes, citing calculations by the AIFS meteorological model. Another predictive model, IFS, specifies that the main snowfall zone will be from Ufa to the eastern part of the Komi Republic. The height of snowdrifts can reach 20 cm.

As for the wind, it will be stormy in the southern part of the cyclone, in the territory from Sterlitamak to Khanty-Mansiysk. The expert warned that the combination of heavy snowfall and gale force winds could lead to blizzards.

Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, reported on November 3 that the first snow began to fall in the north-west of the Moscow Region, which gradually began to be observed in the center of the capital. The first precipitation began to be observed in Istra and Zelenograd. In particular, they were noted by the weather stations of Novo-Jerusalem and Sheremetyevo. Subsequently, snow was recorded in Aksakovo, Novy Bakeevo and in the Moscow City area.