According to him, in the third decade of December and January there were northern flows and an anticyclone was installed, but for a very short time.
“That is, it was mainly the Atlantic that conducted the weather not only over the European part of the country, which is familiar and typical, but also over Asian territory,” RIA Novosti quoted Wilfanda as saying.
The weather forecaster also spoke about such a concept as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), which provides a very intensive transport of air masses from the Atlantic.
He noted that this season they flew not only to Europe, Salekhard and Yamal, but also to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Yakutia and even to the Khabarovsk Territory.
“In my memory, there were similar episodes in the winter, but this winter is just the standard. I don’t remember that, ”the scientist specified.
Earlier it was reported that the temperature in Moscow at midnight on Wednesday, February 19, reached a point of +4.3 ° C - this is an absolute record for the entire history of meteorological observations.