“The northern regions, of course, stood out. The ice in the Arctic Ocean melted so quickly that it became possible to exploit the Northern Sea Route a month earlier ... The North Seas “bloomed” because plankton began to multiply because of the sun, ”RIA Novosti Vilfand quotes.
He also recalled the record heat in Verkhoyansk in Yakutia.
According to Vilfand, torrential rains, "real tropical showers", were observed in the European part of Russia.
Residents of the south of the European part of Russia experienced heat waves with temperatures around 40 ° C.
Earlier, Vilfand did not confirm the climatologist's forecast that Russia will face a severe winter this year.
This opinion was expressed in an interview with URA.RU by meteorologist and climatologist Ekaterina Pestryakova. She said that with a high degree of probability, the coming winter in Russia will be severe. In her opinion, winter temperatures will be observed already in November.