Leading employee of the Phobos weather center, Yevgeny Tishkovets, said that the height of snowdrifts in Moscow will reach 30 cm by December 26, and 7 to 12 mm of precipitation will fall next week. He announced this on his Instagram.

According to him, this is twice the norm and "ahead of the climatic calendar by a month."

Also on the night of December 19 in Moscow, 5 mm of precipitation fell at the VDNKh meteorological station, which is why the snowdrifts grew from 17 to 23 cm at a rate of 15 cm, added Tishkovets.

Earlier, Tishkovets said on his Instagram that on December 19, abnormally low atmospheric pressure is expected in Moscow and the region.

According to him, the metropolitan region was at the mercy of a cyclone. Cloudy weather has come to Moscow and the region, from time to time light snow will pass up to 1-2 cm, a westerly wind of 4-9 m / s will blow. In Moscow it will be about 0 ° C, and in the Moscow region - from -1 to +4 ° C, this temperature is 3-4 degrees higher than normal, Tishkovets noted.

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