"In Moscow on Wednesday, the heat record of 1951 was repeated," RIA Novosti quoted Tishkovets as saying.
The forecaster said that "the columns of the maximum thermometer at the base metropolitan meteorological station VDNKh managed to rise to +34.1 ° C."
“This is the second record in a row and the 6th this season in the last 25 days,” he added.
Climatologist, senior researcher at the Institute of Water Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nina Zaitseva, in an interview with the NSN, assessed climate change in Russia.