Ice is expected in Moscow against the background of fluctuations in temperature, they said in the capital's municipal economy complex.

As noted in the department, on the night of March 9, the air temperature is expected to pass through 0 ° C.

“Air temperature fluctuations between positive and negative values ​​can contribute to the formation of black ice.

City services carry out routine maintenance in accordance with weather conditions,” the complex said in a statement.

The city service appealed to drivers with a request to be careful on the road, strictly observe the speed limit and distance.

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The head of the Meteo prognostic center, Alexander Shuvalov, in an interview with RT, noted that on the afternoon of March 8, the temperature did not rise high, the indicators were around 0 ° C and minus values, while tomorrow, March 9, the temperature will be slightly negative.

“On Friday the temperature will be even lower.

A good frost is expected on Saturday night, down to -15 ... -18 ° С in the region.

Now the processes are changing quite quickly.

On Sunday, the pressure drops, and the temperature jumps up to +3...+5 °C - that's where there will be heavy black ice when we go from -15...-18 °C to +3...+5 within a day and a half °C,” the forecaster said.

In turn, the leading specialist of the Phobos Center, Alina Kotilevskaya, noted that it began to snow in Moscow, which would continue all night, and the temperature would stay around -2 ° C.

“Tomorrow we will continue to snow, with a short break.

The maximum temperature will be around 0°C.

And after the passage of the cold front, there will be an anticyclone from the north, there will be clearings, and cooling will begin.

An intensive drop in temperature will begin on the night of the 10th, ”said Kotilevskaya.

According to her, it is expected to drop to -7 °C, as a result of which severe icy conditions may form.

After that, Kotilevskaya continued, there will be two cold days with cold nights - March 10 and 11.

“On the night of the 11th frost will intensify, it is expected to be about -13 °C.

But no precipitation.

Such a good, comfortable, winter and frosty weather.

Starting from March 12, the weather will deteriorate again, it will snow, and the temperature will rise to +1 °C.

Forecasts are changing very quickly, ”the forecaster explained.

Norms of sunlight and the prospect of the arrival of spring

Earlier, Tatyana Pozdnyakova, a leading specialist of the Meteonovosti news agency, said that residents of the capital received 83 hours of sunshine over the past winter, which is equivalent to 67% of the norm.

In an interview with Evening Moscow, she said that the least sunlight in the capital was observed in December and January - 22 and 21 hours, respectively.

According to her, in February the number of sunny hours increased to 40.

According to Pozdnyakova, a similar deficit of sunlight was observed in Moscow in the 2019-2020 season, when in winter the sun shone for 72 hours, or 59% of the norm.

Earlier, the forecaster also suggested that the meteorological winter will come to the capital region in the second decade of March.

As Pozdnyakova explained, the climatic spring begins when a positive average daily temperature is established in the region.

“If for two or three days the temperature is fixed at least at the level of +0.5 ° C, then we can talk about the beginning of a climatic spring,” the publication quotes her as saying.

Pozdnyakova stressed that this year the calendar spring did not coincide with the weather.