“We are expecting difficult weather in the Far East and on our island territories. Bering Coast, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kuril Islands and South Sakhalin. There are regular cyclones and strong winds here... Of course, it’s not the same collapse in precipitation that we had, but still (a serious situation. -
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), taking into account the fact that that snow hasn’t really gone anywhere yet,” said Varakin.
The forecaster noted that strong waves are expected in the Tatar Strait.
“Accordingly, in the southern waters of the Sea of Okhotsk, the wave height is up to 4-5 m when passing. The weather in the Murmansk region is quite stormy. The cyclones will shift, so the Arkhangelsk region, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Norilsk region - everywhere there are winds of up to 25-28 m/s, snowstorms and snowfall. Cyclones will come one after another, if we talk about the Murmansk region. There will be no significant improvements at the end of this week and the beginning of the next,” the specialist concluded.
Earlier, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center, Roman Vilfand, spoke about the weather in the European territory of Russia.