“On April 14, the air temperature reached 21.5 degrees.
This is higher than the previous record, which was 20.8 degrees and was set in 1962, ”TASS quotes the chief specialist of the Hydrometeorological Center Marina Makarova.
According to her, the exact value of the record will be known in the evening.
The record temperature was recorded by the station at VDNKh.
Earlier, the leading employee of the Phobos weather center, Yevgeny Tishkovets, said that due to a significant decrease in humidity in Moscow, the effect of "weather in the desert" is observed.