the heaviest snowfall in the last 40 years in the Moscow region – Kommersant

In the Moscow region, almost 3 thousand people and more than 2 thousand pieces of equipment were involved in clearing roads and streets, said regional governor Andrei Vorobyov. According to him, the region is experiencing the heaviest snowfall in the last 40 years.

“The most difficult situation in cleaning roads is in Mozhaisk, Leninsky, Lobnya and Podolsk. We are transferring additional forces there,” Mr. Vorobiev wrote in Telegram. He added that ice quickly forms on sidewalks and roads.

In Moscow, according to the forecast of the Phobos weather center, up to 26.5 mm of precipitation may fall per day, or 50% of the monthly norm. The city authorities asked citizens to refrain from traveling by personal transport. In the morning due to bad weather at airports was delayed or canceled about 40 flights.

In Moscow and the region announced yellow weather warning due to snow and strong winds. By data weather forecasters, today, November 27, in the capital it will be -1…1°C (in the Moscow region -3…2°C), cloudy, in some places heavy wet snow and ice. On November 28, the temperature in the capital will drop to –3…–5°C (in the Moscow region – to –3…–8°C), and it will also be cloudy with snow.

Laura Keffer