In Moscow, the thermometer bars fell slightly below zero. According to the Hydrometeorological Center, the temperature during the day on Thursday in the capital varies in the region of -3 ...- 5 ° С. According to the Phobos Weather Center’s Meteovesti website, January 23 may be the coldest day of winter.

“Thursday has arrived (January 23 - RT) will be the coldest day of the current winter: before that, the lowest daily maximum in Moscow was observed on December 2 of last year, when the air temperature could not rise above -2.2 ° С,” weather forecasters explain center.

Snow is possible until the end of the day. According to Phobos, the snow depth in Moscow has already reached 6 cm, and today it may still increase.

The Ministry of Emergencies warned of increased wind and sleet. The press service of the department said that from 07:00 to 18:00 a north-west wind is expected with gusts of up to 12-17 m / s.

Winter mood

The leading specialist of the Phobos weather center, Yevgeny Tishkovets, in an interview with RT, explained that within a few days the winter will remain, the temperature indicators will remain slightly negative.

“In the coming days there will be something similar to winter. Today partly cloudy, light snow. In the daytime, -3 ... -5 ° C, night cloudy with no precipitation, up to -6 ... -8 ° C, ”said the weather forecaster.

According to him, it is possible that January 23 will be the coldest day of January, because the previous indicators this month did not fall below -2 ...- 4 ° С. Perhaps the night will be the coldest, Tishkovets added.

Interestingly, the previous night (January 22), on the contrary, was very warm and even broke the daily temperature record. In Moscow, +4.3 ° С was recorded. As explained in the Hydrometeorological Center, before that the absolute maximum for this date was + 3.8 ° С. Thus, on average over the past days, indicators exceeded the climatic norm by more than 9 ° C.

Excess trend will continue this week. The leading specialist of the Phobos weather center noted that soon a warm front will bring snow clouds, and the wind will increase to 5-10 m / s. Already on Friday, the temperature will rise to about zero, the weather forecaster added. On Saturday and Sunday (January 25-26), according to the forecast of Phobos, at night there will be a slight minus + 0 ... -2 ° С, and in the afternoon about 0 ° С.

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“Precipitation will continue, but weaken in intensity. This will strengthen the position of winter in the sense that snow cover will increase. For these few days, I think, we will add a centimeter or two. A series of Atlantic cyclones and an increase in temperature with weak thaws awaits us further, ”concluded Tiskovec.

Pink february

The beginning of next week will not differ much from the current one by the nature of the weather.

“In short, the start of the week will be moderately cool. The temperature, of course, will still be above normal. Night temperatures are expected to be -5 ... -6 ° C. And in the future, the temperature will again rise to +0 ° С, ”said Roman Wilfand, scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, RT.

Earlier, weather forecasters promised in the European part of Russia the offensive of the so-called "pink" February. The fact is that, in accordance with the long-term forecast of the experts of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), under the auspices of the European Union, part of Russia is colored pink on the service forecast cards. According to Copernicus, by February 9th, the temperature will still be above normal, but not much. Closer to the middle of the month, the thermometer columns will start to rise again, the warmest period is expected on February 10-16.

In an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Roman Vilfand noted that from year to year there are more and more abnormal natural phenomena. According to him, this is inevitable and we need to adapt to this.

“There is less and less normal weather, and more and more extreme,” said the supervisor of the Hydrometeorological Center.

Therefore, it turns out that -3 ...- 5 ° С become the lowest indicators of the month, he added. As Villefand explained to RT, it is possible that today's average daily temperature will indeed be the lowest. According to weather forecasters, we are approaching a period that usually becomes the coldest in all winter.

“The coldest days of the year are January 31 and February 1. The average daily temperature is -10.1 ° C, ”concluded Wilfand.