The specialist noted that at the moment “difficult weather” is predicted in two directly opposite regions of Russia.
“First of all, in the northwest, in Karelia, in the Leningrad and Vologda regions due to the removal of very warm air masses. Heavy precipitation in the form of rain, sleet. Ice, accumulation of wet snow, wind up to 18 m/s and even a snowstorm in the very north of the Leningrad region and Karelia. Very dangerous weather on Monday in the Far East. Heavy precipitation in the form of both rain and sleet. Ice, wet snow accumulation, coastal winds up to 22 m/s and conditions for freezing rain. It would seem that these are the most opposite points of our country, but this is where the weather is so dangerous for the life of the regions,” Vilfand said.
He warned of cold weather in several areas of Siberia.
“Supercold, abnormally cold weather will last for a long time in the most populated areas: in the Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk, Kemerovo regions, in the South and Center of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. There it is down to -40 °C. This is dangerous weather because it is a long period of abnormally cold weather,” the forecaster explained.
Earlier, Alexander Ilyin, a forecaster at the Meteo-TV forecast center, said that abnormally cold weather had set in from St. Petersburg to Anadyr.