Sobyanin told about another mayor's joke about snowfall in Moscow

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, speaking about the abnormal snowfall in the capital, jokingly asked his colleague "which God he prayed to." Pavel Zarubin, a journalist from the Vesti news agency, told about this on February 22.

"Who did you put candles on, which god did you pray to? <...> There has been no snow at all all winter, sweetheart!" said Sobyanin.

The Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Reshetnikov, in a conversation with the mayor of the capital, joked in response that "I don't know which god he was praying to, but he indicated exactly where the snow should fall."

Alexander Kolesov, chief forecaster of St. Petersburg, reported on February 21 that the height of the snow cover in the center of Moscow surpassed the record recorded in the center of St. Petersburg in 2011, when snowdrifts reached 73 cm. As Kolesov noted, on the morning of February 19 in the center of Moscow, the snow height was 58 cm. Under the influence of Cyclone Wally, the snowfall intensified, and by the morning of February 20, the snow cover had grown to 77 cm.

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