He said this at a press conference in Moscow.

“Approximately 60-65% of the country's territory is predicted to have a temperature background above the norm.

What are these regions?

“This is the east of the European territory of Russia, the Volga region, the east of the Northwestern Federal District, the lower Volga, the east of Stavropol, the entire region of Western Siberia, the entire Krasnoyarsk Territory, a significant part of Yakutia, Chukotka ... Cold weather is not predicted anywhere,” he quotes TASS.

Vilfand also added that in most of Russia, precipitation will be within the climatic norm, while in some regions there will still be a shortage, and in some - an excess.

“Deficiency is predicted in the south of Western Siberia… and in the north-east of the country — this is the east of Yakutia, Chukotka, Kamchatka.

Excess precipitation is in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, in the west of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and in the Khabarovsk Territory, ”the meteorologist noted.

Earlier, Tatyana Pozdnyakova, the chief specialist of the Moscow Meteorological Bureau, spoke about the preliminary weather forecast for May 9 in Moscow.