The weather forecaster noted that "the records are constantly updated, but this year is special."

“Meteorologists have never seen such a number of different records,” Wilfanda quotes RIA Novosti.

He explained that records in temperature and in rainfall were updated every month.

According to documents demonstrated by Wilfand, the total number of recorded weather records exceeded 240. 

On June 17, it was reported that a temperature record of 115 years ago had been broken in St. Petersburg.

Nutrition specialist Maria Kalugina, in an interview with Nation News, gave recommendations on choosing foods in hot weather.