Forecaster spoke about the weather in Moscow and St. Petersburg in April

Cyclone Khusru is to blame for the return of winter

St. Petersburg was covered with snow, which was a surprise for its residents for this period. It has been noticed that often after Northern Palmyra the weather (rain, snow, temperature drop) passes to Moscow. Really, this time the capital will repeat the fate of its neighbor? When we wait for the arrival of real spring heat, whether there will still be frosts and when motorists change winter tires to summer tires, MK found out from Mikhail Leus, a leading employee of the Phobos weather center.

But no, Moscow is not threatened by snowfall. As forecasters expected, the cold snap in the capital turned out to be very short. Today, March 30, was the coldest day of this cold snap. Tomorrow there will still be frosts, but the temperature will begin to rise and reach the level of those temperatures that we observed at the end of March.

– During the weekend, the temperature will be within +9 + 12, – Mikhail Leus delighted MK. And then a little upset, noting that it will be cloudy, with a little drizzling rain. But it will be very warm.

“However, this is not spring yet, in the middle of next week another wave of cold will come to the capital region,” the forecaster continued. – The temperature will return to the climatic norm; on Wednesday afternoon it will be about +4+6 degrees, and on Thursday night – frosts.

– Meanwhile, winter has returned to St. Petersburg …

– In St. Petersburg today, the snow cover has reached a height of 18 cm, but in this situation, Muscovites should not expect the same snowfall. Climatic processes that move from St. Petersburg to Moscow, contrary to popular belief, are not so common, only in 50% of cases. Snow will not fall in the capital, at least during the period we are talking about. St. Petersburg was in the cold part of the cyclone, the capital region – in the warm part of the cyclone. In the northern capital, the temperature dropped to -7 degrees, during the day it was about 0. And the snow cover height of 18 cm is almost the highest figure for the entire cold period.

According to Mikhail Leus, today March in the capital is 2 degrees warmer than it should be according to the climatic norm.

We could not help but ask the authority in the field of meteorology a question that worries all motorists at the moment: when, in his opinion, is it worth changing winter tires to summer tires?

– In the first half of April, it is better not to do this. And not because we might have snow again, no. Rubber manufacturers, as you know, recommend changing car tires from winter to summer when the average air temperature is above +5+7 degrees. And according to the climate in Moscow, this happens no earlier than the second half of April. But if you plan to ride only during the daytime, when the air is already warming up well, you can change. And if you get behind the wheel in the early morning, when our temperature is around 0 or even lower, it’s better to wait a while with the replacement.

… As for other regions where winter has returned, on March 30, Mikhail Leus noted in his telegram channel the Rostov region, which was at the epicenter of snowfalls. Comparing St. Petersburg and the south of the European part of Russia, which are covered with snow, with Moscow, where everything is calm so far, he explained that “in Moscow and in St. the warm part turned out to be, and St. Petersburg – in the cold. And in the south of Russia there is another cyclone, it formed on the cold front, which was associated with the “Moscow-Petersburg” cyclone.