Forecasters warned of bad weather in southern Russia, the Urals and Siberia

At the beginning of the week in the regions of the south of the European part of Russia, the Volga region, the Urals and the south of Western Siberia, heavy precipitation, wind and ice are expected. Wet snow is predicted in the Kuban on March 6 and 7, ice and frost are expected in the Rostov region, and a thunderstorm is expected on the Black Sea coast, said TASS scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia Roman Vilfand.

“Emergency information has come that on the 6th in Ingushetia and the Chechen Republic a hurricane wind of up to 30-32 m / s is predicted, in the mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria – very heavy snow and very heavy mixed precipitation, that is, both snow and rain , and sleet,” Mr. Vilfand said.

In the Chelyabinsk region on March 6, wind up to 21 m/s, snow, sleet is expected, in the Omsk and Kemerovo regions – ice phenomena, in the Altai Territory – ice, wind up to 20 m/s, heavy snow, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center said.

Maria Fedotova