“On January 17 at 13 o’clock at the VDNH station the temperature reached 4.3 ° C. Thus, a new temperature record was set for these days. The former, at 4.2 ° C, held since 1925, ”the website of the weather service says.
On January 16, Yevgeny Tishkovets, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, announced a temperature record of +3.1 ° C in the capital.
The acting director of the Hydrometeorological Center, Roman Vilfand, in an interview with the NSN, named a possible reason for the warm winter in Russia.