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On December 19, due to snowfall at three airports in Moscow, according to the Yandex.Schedule service at 17.00, 29 flights were canceled and eight flights were delayed. So, eight flights were delayed to Vnukovo, seven to Domodedovo, and 14 to Sheremetyevo.
How much snow has fallen?
According to the leading employee of the weather center “Phobos” Evgeny Tishkovets, zand last night in Moscow (according to the VDNH base weather station), 5 mm of precipitation fell, due to which snowdrifts increased from 17 to 23 cm with a norm for this time of year – 15 cm. At another metropolitan weather station – Tushino – the height of the snow cover was 27 cm. The largest snowdrifts were recorded in the Moscow region. In particular, in Pavlovsky Posad – 29 cm, and in Cherusty – 33 cm, Tishkovets wrote on his Facebook page.
As a result of these snowfalls, visibility decreased to 1000 meters, and somewhere less. And this always imposes restrictions on crews,” the meteorologist noted in an interview with Vesti FM.
How much snow will fall in Moscow next week?
Russian frosts are waiting for Central Russia all the coming week, the forecaster noted. A diving cyclone of North Atlantic origin and named by German meteorologists “Neo”, will bring gusts of wind and fleeting charges of snow.
“Over the coming week in Moscow, a total of 7 to 12 mm of precipitation will fall, and the height of snowdrifts will reach 30 cm by Sunday, and up to 32-37 cm on Monday, which is twice the norm and ahead of the climatic calendar by a month,” Tishkovets wrote.
He also noted that Wednesday, December 22, will be the coldest day in the capital region since 1978. On Wednesday night in Moscow, the thermometer will drop to -17…-22 degrees. Nevertheless, from Thursday, “when, under the influence of the anticyclone crest, the weather clears up a little, the air flows will turn from the north to the west, as a result of which the cold will slowly recede. In the morning, the thermometer will show -16…-21, in the afternoon to -11…-16.
On Friday, the snow will be of low intensity (-14…-19 at night, -8…-13 in the afternoon), but on Saturday the snowfall will noticeably intensify, the forecaster noted.The temperature background will return to its climatic channel: in the morning no lower than -8 to -13, in the afternoon from -3 to -8. On Sunday, December 26, it will also be quite snowy, at night it will warm up to -3 to -8, in the afternoon to -1 to -6.
Sources of information:
facebook.com/meteofob
rasp.yandex.ru