“We can expect that in the second half of the week the water temperature in the Moscow River will warm up and the swimming season will already begin,” Vilfand's forecast cites TASS.

According to him, now the water temperature in the Moscow River is approximately + 16 ° C.

Closer to the weekend, the water will warm up to +20 ... + 22 ° С.

Wilfand noted that this temperature is considered optimal for the opening of the swimming season.

Earlier, the chief specialist of the Moscow meteorological office, Tatyana Pozdnyakova, in an interview with RT, spoke about the weather in the metropolitan region in the next few days.