“For a day in the city, about a quarter of the monthly rainfall fell, which in May totals 51 mm,” the representative of the weather bureau said.

According to weather forecasts, cloudy, rainy and cool weather will continue in the metropolitan area until the end of the week.

Earlier, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand commented on the spread of cold weather in Moscow and the Moscow region. In an interview with 360 TV channel, he noted that “the weather is connected with a completely stable, homogeneous process, when cold air genetically formed over Greenland moves in the center of European Russia”.