“At 2 p.m., a temperature of 17.5 ° C was recorded at the main weather station in Moscow. Thus, today, October 21, has become the warmest in the last 70 years, ”the Meteonews portal reports.
It is noted that the temperature can approach the absolute record of the day, which was set on October 21, 1896. Then the temperature was 18.1 ° C.
Earlier, kp.ru reported that a temperature record was registered in Ryazan on October 18. Meteorologists recorded a temperature of +18.5 ° C, which is 0.2 ° C higher than the previous record.