The weather forecaster noted that the temperature now recorded in Moscow is +21.6 °C.
“And the record value, which has been so far for the entire observation period, was in 1983 on April 1, the temperature was +17.8 °C. This means that the temperature has already exceeded this value by 3.8 °C,” Vilfand said.
He added that the temperature on April 2 will also exceed the previous record.
“Tomorrow there will also be (record temperatures. -
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). The record value on April 2, which has been observed so far, was +17.4 °C. It was observed twice during the entire period of instrumental observations, in 1951 and 1983. And tomorrow, according to the forecast in Moscow, the temperature will be +21...+23 °C. This is summer weather. Minimum night temperature values are +10...+12 °C. I think that you don’t even need to know the climate deeply to understand offhand that this temperature is not April, not May, but June,” the weather forecaster noted.
According to his forecast, on Wednesday the air circulation will change, the temperature is expected to drop to +15...+17 °C, and on Friday the temperature will return to normal.
“Night temperatures will be around zero, approximately -3...+2 °C, and during the day - +5...+7 °C. And indeed we will return from the June weather to normal. The temperature will drop by 15 °C from Tuesday to Friday,” concluded RT’s interlocutor.
Earlier, Alexander Ilyin, a forecaster at the Meteo forecasting center, said that a week of temperature contrasts was expected in Moscow and the region.