This is reported by RIA Novosti.
"Usually it (" maximum ". - RT) is formed at this time over western and eastern Siberia, over the Krasnoyarsk Territory and over Yakutia. This zone “holds” warm air and there is cooling, and then this cold naturally spreads to the Urals and central Russia, ”explained Varakin.
According to him, this year the anticyclone is located on the border of Mongolia, over the north-west of China, captures the south of Buryatia and Transbaikalia, cyclones with Atlantic heat move through the Urals, all the cold goes to Canada, to Alaska.
The weather forecaster explained the warm weather in Russia by the fact that the vast cold zone collides with the warm air over the Gulf Stream, penetrates Europe, and then spreads to Asia without encountering obstacles.
“This is not typical for a classic winter,” he said, noting that a large cold zone covered Canada’s Quebec, Hudson and Baffolo Bay.
Also, Varakin said that in the next ten days the average daily temperature corresponded to climatic indicators on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and in the south of Chukotka.
At the same time, as he said, in the rest of the country the temperature will be 4-12 ° C above the norm, the Komi and Vologda Oblast are waiting for the largest deviations.
It is noted that in the territory from St. Petersburg to Moscow, from Kazan to the Middle Volga and almost to the Urals, the temperature will be 8-10 ° C above normal.
“In the rest of the country, the excess of the norm will be less,” concluded Varakin.
It was previously reported that in Moscow on Friday, January 10, it is expected to +1 ° C.
It was noted that Christmas night this year has become one of the warmest over the past 20 years in the capital.