The weather forecaster predicted a heat wave in the Moscow region at the end of July

The air temperature in Moscow may rise to +30 degrees in the last days of July. Tatiana Pozdnyakova, a leading specialist at the Meteonosti news agency, reported this on Wednesday, July 23.

According to the forecaster, sunny weather is expected in the capital over the weekend, up to +28 degrees in the afternoon.

"It is possible that next week the temperature may approach +29...+30 degrees in the Moscow region, it's hard to say which day, but we expect such weather until the end of July. The end of July is the hottest in terms of climate, and it will be this year. We are waiting for the precipitation to stop and the temperature to rise," Pozdnyakova told the Moscow City News agency.

Central flooding: record rains hit Russian regions

In Moscow and the Moscow region, precipitation broke the record of 1879

Earlier that day, Mikhail Lokoshchenko, a leading researcher at the Department of Meteorology and Climatology at the Moscow State University Faculty of Geography and chief specialist at the Meteo forecasting center, said that the average temperature in July in Moscow exceeded the norm by two degrees, RT reports.

In turn, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, Roman Vilfand, said that on Thursday and Friday, July 24 and 25, +25...+28 degrees are expected, and in the Moscow region — up to +30 degrees. 360.ru . Short-term rains are possible in some places over the weekend, but the temperature will remain at +25...+27 degrees.

On July 22, a third of the monthly precipitation rate was recorded at a weather station in the center of Moscow. In addition, a total of 184 mm of precipitation has fallen in the capital since the beginning of July, which means 219% of the climatic norm, said Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center.