“For the first time in the entire 130-year history of regular meteorological observations in all federal districts, this year has become a record year, with the exception of the North Caucasian District.
This is amazing, just the rarest case.
It is clear that throughout Russia 2020 has become a record year, the hottest in history, "TASS quoted him as saying.
Wilfand noted that in Moscow in 2020, the average annual temperature was immediately 3 degrees above normal.
According to him, the records are related to global warming.
Earlier, Vilfand spoke about “weather anomalies” in the regions of Russia.