In Moscow on Thursday, forecasters expect an abnormal amount of precipitation in form of sleet and rain, said a leading specialist of the center weather “Phobos” Eugene Tiscover.
“it is predicted anomalous rainfall, some places may fall to 23-28 mm and is half of the monthly norm. In the afternoon the air temperature in the capital will not exceed plus 8-10 degrees, and it will be the coldest day of the current may. Such temperature indicators have on climate in the first decade of April, that is, climate Muscovites will be rejected 1.5 months ago,” said Tiscover, RIA “Novosti”.
According to him, similar Arctic invasion on may 21 in Moscow took place not more frequently than once in 18 years, and precipitation of such intensity to this day has only happened once in 25 years.
“the fact that in the outbreak of polar cold formed high-altitude cyclone that will hit torrential rainfall. Given that at the height of 883 metres (the level of lower layer clouds), the temperature will become negative (minus 0.6 degrees) and the earth by morning will drop to plus 1 plus 6, then the short night and in the morning of Thursday rains sometimes begin to move into charges of wet snow with a significant deterioration of visibility,” – said the expert.
Snow may be in the Northern, North-Eastern and North-Western districts of the Moscow region, the snow may fall and on the outskirts of the city centre, but also in the administrative districts NEAD, CAO, SZAO, HLW, SEAD.
On Wednesday forecasters predicted the temperature to 13-15 degrees, on area – 12-17 degrees Celsius.
