Weather for quarantine: what forecast did weather forecasters make for the weekend in Russia

March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed citizens in connection with the spread of coronavirus and announced a non-working week in the country with salaries.

“Now it is extremely important to prevent the threat of the rapid spread of the disease. Therefore, I declare the next week non-working, with salary remaining. That is, the weekend will last from Saturday, March 28, to Sunday, April 5. Naturally, all life support structures, including medical institutions, pharmacies, shops, institutions providing banking, financial calculations, transportation, as well as authorities at all levels will continue to work. I repeat, a long weekend is provided just to reduce the spread of the disease, ”the head of state emphasized.

According to Dmitry Morozov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection, “a week of a pause will allow you to interrupt the epidemiological process.” In an interview with the Parliamentary Newspaper, he urged the population to take the situation seriously and stay at home or at the cottage, as well as not contact other people. He especially emphasized the need for one hundred percent isolation of the older generation.

Significant temperature drop

Until the end of this week, the weather in Moscow and the region will contribute to out-of-town trips, said Roman Vilfand, scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia. In the afternoon, the air will warm up to comfortable temperatures.

“Until the end of this week, the weather will not change significantly. The same blue sky, the sun, which will determine the maximum temperatures during the day to +11 ... + 15 ° C, ”explained Villefand.

According to the forecast of the Hydrometeorological Center, night temperatures will be near zero, fluctuations are possible within -2 ... + 3 ° C. According to the meteorologist, such a temperature difference day and night is a typical property of the anticyclone, which will determine the weather these days.

But the situation will begin to change with the advent of the new week.

According to Tatyana Pozdnyakova, chief specialist of the Moscow Meteoburo, the cause is the southern cyclone.

“On Monday, March 30th, it (cyclone. - RT ) will bring us rainfall, and on Tuesday a snowball may fall. Against this background, a significant drop in temperature is expected, ”said the weather forecaster.

At night, the temperature will be negative, according to the forecast of the Moscow Meteo Bureau. The daily indices on March 30 will still remain slightly positive, and on March 31 the air will warm up no higher than zero. According to Pozdnyakova, "the inflow of cold air can last two to three days."

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Pressure reduction

The scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia Roman Vilfand, for his part, added that a decrease in pressure is also expected at the beginning of next week. Currently, the pressure exceeds the norm by 12-15 mm RT. Art., and starting March 29, it will begin to decline, said the weather forecaster. Chance of light rain.

According to Vilfand, the temperature drop will continue on Tuesday, March 31. Expect small frosts at night. At the same time, the Scientific Director of the Hydrometeorological Center emphasized that it is not worth talking about cooling.

“It would seem such a strong, significant cooling, but the word“ cooling ”is not appropriate here, because if we compare this weather with the norm, with climatic values, it turns out that we come to a normal temperature background, which should be at this time of year”, He explained.

Further, the anticyclone will move to the more eastern regions of Russia, Villefand explained. Thus, the temperature in the regions adjacent to Moscow will also change. According to him, "by the end of the month in the European territory - at least the NWFD, in Moscow in the Central Black Earth regions the temperature background will approach normal."

Earlier, Wilfand told RIA Novosti that the state of the atmosphere in central Russia, starting from April 1, will be “swampy”.

But in the southern part of European Russia, on the contrary, a higher temperature will be observed. According to the forecast of the Hydrometeorological Center, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the coming days, the indicators will exceed the norm by 12-14 degrees.

“Then in the south the temperature will also drop, but it will be in the range of 8 to 13 degrees above normal. I’m talking about the south of the Rostov region, the Krasnodar Territory, ”explained Wilfand RT.