The night of March 7 was the coldest since the beginning of spring.

"At the moment it is really the coldest night since the beginning of the calendar spring," RIA Novosti quotes the chief meteorological expert Tatyana Pozdnyakov.

However, she stressed that the repetition and excess of this record in March is not excluded.

Earlier, the online publication Gazeta.Ru, citing data from the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, reported that on March 7 in the capital it is expected to -3 ° C.