The monthly precipitation rate in Moscow this month exceeded 7%, the height of snowdrifts reached 45 centimeters, a leading specialist of the weather center Phobos Mikhail Leus told RIA Novosti.
According to him, on the eve of the evening, the precipitation norm reached 7%.
Leus also noted that the height of snow cover is 1.5 times higher than expected, which has become a record for this winter.
Earlier, the forecaster reported that during the day on January 22, the snow will not go as intensively as the day before, the amount of precipitation will be 3-5 centimeters. It is expected that a third of the monthly precipitation rate will fall in Moscow by the end of the week.
The scientific director of Roshydromet, Roman Vilfand, in turn, said that in March in the Russian Federation one should not expect a plus temperature, the thermometer columns will begin to rise no earlier than the 20th of the month.