“The data was received from the main meteorological station of the city at VDNKh.
This is 25% of the monthly norm of precipitation, which is 36 mm in February, ”forecasters said.
According to the Hydrometeorological Center, the daily rainfall record for February 12, set in 1973 (7 mm), has been broken.
Snowfall is expected to peak in the city between midnight and Saturday 15:00.
Earlier, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin urged residents to be as attentive and careful as possible due to snowfall.