“If we characterize the entire growing season, this is the season from April to September inclusive, it is predicted that the temperature throughout our country will be around and above the norm,” Vilfand quotes TASS.

According to him, cold spring and cold summer are not predicted.

He noted that throughout the summer in the south of the European part of Russia there will be a deficit of precipitation.

Earlier, the head of the laboratory of climatology at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Semyonov told whether the summer in Russia could become longer.