The specialist noted that the cyclone passing through the Baltic Sea touched Moscow as a warm front.
“It started snowing around midnight. During the night, 5 mm of precipitation fell at VDNKh and 6 mm at Tusheno. The temperature rose to almost 0 °C. According to the forecast, today in Moscow it will be cloudy and light precipitation during the day. Snow, sleet, temperature -1...+1 °C. Later in the evening a cold front will pass and by midnight the temperature will drop to -4 °C. On the night from Sunday to Monday -6...-8 °C, cloudy with clearings and light snow, sleet in places. The wind will change to the north-west,” Tsygankov said.
According to him, on Monday and Tuesday the capital will be cold, and in the middle of the week another cyclone will bring warmth.
“On the night from Monday to Tuesday -13...-15 °C, and during the day -3...-5 °C. On Wednesday night -5...-10 °C, during the day -4...-6 °C. The next cyclone will come out on Wednesday and will bring warmth again. During the day on Wednesday -3...+2 °С, cloudy and light
precipitation. On Thursday night -5...0 °C, during the day -1...+4 cloudy, but no precipitation. On the night from Thursday to Friday -2...+3 °С, cloudy with light precipitation. The wind is southwest everywhere, that is, warm. On Friday, light precipitation and 0...+5 °C,” the forecaster added.
According to his preliminary forecast, cloudy weather with no precipitation is expected on Saturday at a temperature of +1...+6°C.
Earlier, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, Roman Vilfand, warned about abnormally cold weather in a number of regions of Siberia.