“Indian summer is in full swing, we continue to break records.

Today the air temperature in St. Petersburg has reached 23.4 degrees.

In 1925, there was a temperature extremity of 22.9 degrees, ”Kolesov said.

It is specified that this record became the 16th in a row since the beginning of the year and the second since the beginning of autumn. 

Earlier, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, Roman Vilfand, announced the arrival of a heat wave in Moscow.