“According to calculations... on Friday and weekends, 80% of the country’s territory has abnormally low temperatures, below long-term values,” TASS quotes him as saying.

Vilfand emphasized that in the European part of Russia it will be 12...14 degrees below normal, in the Urals - 8...14 degrees, in the Far East, Yakutia, Magadan - 4...6 degrees below normal.

Earlier, the weather forecaster, in a conversation with RT, spoke about the weather in the capital next week.

Vilfand emphasized that starting Thursday, Muscovites will expect a sharp drop in temperature due to the fact that the anticyclone will move from the northeast to the southwest.