An emergency warning was announced in Sochi due to the heat at 37 ° C

"An urgent warning ... Day and evening on July 20 in Sochi is expected to be very hot, in some places the air temperature will reach +36 ... + 37 ° C," the department said.

Rescuers warned of the danger of forest fires.

Earlier, the chief weather forecaster of St. Petersburg, Alexander Kolesov, in an interview with Inforeactor, gave a weather forecast for the second half of July.