The forecaster on his Facebook said that such a cold temperature on December 6 in St. Petersburg had not been for 128 years.
"Today in St. Petersburg a daily record of the minimum air temperature has been set!"
- he said.
According to him, the temperature in St. Petersburg was -20.9 ° C.
Leus said it was 0.4 degrees lower than December 6, 1893.
Earlier, the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Leningrad Region reported that frosts down to -30 ° C are expected in the region on the night of December 6.
The scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, Roman Vilfand, said that in Moscow, starting from December 10, the temperature is forecast to drop to -10 ° C during the day.