“The hottest weather is in rather unexpected regions.
In the Magadan region, in Kamchatka, the east of Komi, the Arkhangelsk region, the temperature is predicted to be above 30 degrees.
It is also very hot in the Urals: in Yekaterinburg the temperature is 4-5 degrees above the norm, in the Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions it is up to 36 degrees," Vilfand was quoted as saying by TASS.
According to him, the heat in Yakutia will negatively affect the fire danger.
He added that in the Moscow, Leningrad, Tambov, Ryazan, Kostroma regions, heavy rain is predicted on July 14.
Earlier it was reported that in a number of areas of the Perm Territory, visits to forests were limited due to hot weather.