In the coming days, the temperature in several regions of Russia will be 16-20 degrees below normal. This was stated in an interview with RIA Novosti by the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand.
According to the forecaster, such extreme frosts are waiting for residents of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
“From Sunday, cold air will flow into the North-Western Federal District, on December 20 to the regions of the Central Federal District. And from December 21, the cold will come to the center of European Russia,” the specialist noted.
It is specified that temperature deviations of 15-20 degrees below normal will be observed in Yamal and in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, cooling by 9-14 degrees below normal is predicted in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Arkhangelsk Region.
Meanwhile, in the Vologda, Leningrad, Pskov regions from Sunday to Wednesday, anomalies are expected to be 7-14 degrees below normal.In Central Russia, temperature anomalies will reach 16 degrees, and in the Moscow region, thermometer columns will drop to minus 26 degrees.
Earlier it became known about the weather on New Year’s Eve.