“The crest of the anticyclone, which is moving from the west, will quietly spread, but will fundamentally be established in the European part of Russia,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

Vilfand noted that at the weekend the temperature in European Russia is predicted at +30 °C. 

“Hot weather will spread to the southeast of European Russia, the Volga region, and the Urals,” the weatherman said. 

According to him, in the Volgograd, Astrakhan regions, in the east of Stavropol, the temperature will reach very high temperatures - +37 ... +38 ° С, and in Kalmykia - up to +40 ° С.

Earlier, the scientific director of the Institute of Global Climate and Ecology, climatologist, Honored Scientist of Russia, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Semyonov spoke in an interview with URA.RU about the possible consequences of global climate change.