He said that "such a refrigerator, such a powerful snow cover that has formed in the vastness of the Central Russian Plain, it will be a kind of cold chamber that will affect the temperature background."

“According to long-term forecasts, March will take over the cold, according to my estimates, the month will be one to four degrees colder than the norm with a slight deficit of precipitation.

Moreover, with an extension to early April, perhaps even to the first half of April.

The onset of a climatic spring is usually on March 27, in my opinion, the date will be shifted to the right by a week or two, ”RIA Novosti quoted Tishkovets as saying.

Earlier, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, Roman Vilfand, reported that frosty and sunny weather would come to Moscow from Monday, February 15th.