“Today in Moscow, a record of 2015 was broken by 0.3 degrees - the temperature reached +6.2 ° C,” he said.
According to the agency, Sinenkov said earlier that before that, a temperature record for 71 years for December 23 was set in 2015, when the air temperature reached +5.9 ° C.
On December 19, the temperature record in Moscow was broken for the second day in a row: the air temperature was +6.5 ° С.
In the Moscow weather bureau RT said that December 23-24 will have "another wave of warm weather", and therefore it is possible that the temperature will be close to climatic records.
Forecasters also noted that snow cover in the capital did not exactly form until December 26-27.