Ice rain will take place in Moscow next week, said Yevgeny Tishkovets, a leading employee of the Phobos weather center. According to him, the capital's streets and sidewalks are covered with ice.

The weather forecaster said that in Moscow from Sunday to Tuesday inclusive, cold weather will remain with variable cloud cover and no precipitation. According to Tishkovets, in the city it is expected -11 ...- 6 ° C at night, and in the afternoon -5 ...- 0 ° C.

“On Wednesday, the sky is overcast, in some places a little snow can pour, but the snow cover is unlikely to form. The temperature will begin to rise gradually, during the day already -7 ...- 2 ° C, ”RIA Novosti forecaster quotes.

However, as Tishkovets reports, already on Thursday a warm atmospheric front will come to the capital, which will bring “moist and saturated with steam and heat” Black Sea air. After that, focal, focal precipitation in the form of snow will begin in the evening to pass into the mixed phase and icy rain, which will approach the south of Moscow at 17-18 hours.

“Moscow will not cover the whole, but on the tangent the probability of this ice rain on Thursday is very high,” Tishkovets noted, indicating that this phenomenon can be dangerous even in the focal version.

According to him, ice deposition can reach one millimeter, as a result of which it will be slippery on roads and sidewalks.

Mixed frost and precipitation

The chief specialist of the Moscow Weather Bureau, Tatyana Pozdnyakova, confirmed that warm air would come to the capital.

“By the middle of the week, the weather will change, warm Atlantic air will replace the cold anticyclone,” she told RT.

According to Pozdnyakova, due to the freezing of the earth's surface, the arrival of warm air will cause its condensation at the earth's surface. Pozdnyakova said that on Wednesday and Thursday night there is a chance of mixed precipitation - rain and snow.

“They will stick to the ground, wires and trees. Ice-frosty phenomena will form. In some places the landscape will resemble quite winter, although there will be no snow, ”the weather forecaster described the situation.

However, she refrained from forecasting an icy rain. According to her, this phenomenon can be accurately predicted only in a day.

The probability of upcoming precipitation was previously expressed by the supervisor of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Wilfand. According to him, wet snow may fall and it will rain, but there is no talk of real snow yet.

“There is no precipitation at all until Wednesday, because there is high pressure, sunny weather. Clouds will begin to appear on Wednesday, and already from Thursday, on Friday next week, we forecast precipitation. But precipitation is in the form of wet snow and rain, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

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The head of the Roshydromet situational center, Yuri Varakin, believes that it is not necessary to say about the likelihood of ice rain in Moscow, but warming and precipitation in the capital are expected.

“For now, I would not begin to assure here that there will be freezing rain in Moscow and in the region. And that warming will come out, there will be precipitation on Friday, Saturday, after that we will be cold already by the 30th, ”the expert said in an interview with RT.

However, he believes that in the capital, you can still expect the appearance of full snow closer to the end of the coming week.

“By the 29th, we will finally see snow, because the temperatures will be negative. Especially negative temperatures will be already on Saturday and Sunday, on the 30th and 1st, ”the specialist noted.

According to him, the capital will be in the rear of the anticyclone, and subzero temperatures will be kept not only at night, but also during the day.

Start of the winter holiday season in Moscow

Despite the lack of snow cover, Moscow's winter infrastructure facilities are being prepared for the start of the season. According to Peter Biryukov, deputy mayor of the capital on housing and public utilities and beautification issues, in winter almost 4 thousand locations will work in Moscow in winter.

“The preparation of 3920 winter recreation facilities is ongoing. In total, this year 1418 skating rinks with all the necessary infrastructure will be operational: lighting, rental and first aid centers, locker rooms, food outlets. Of these, 1215 ice rinks with natural ice cover and 203 - with artificial ice, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

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According to him, artificial ice rinks will open at the end of the coming week. In addition, with the formation of a stable snow cover, ski slopes will begin to work. There are 388 such facilities in the capital. Along with them, 30 ski bases and 7 ski slopes are provided in Moscow.

In the parks and courtyards of Moscow will appear 283 ice slides, over 1700 sites for sports and 22 places for sledding and dog sledding. In addition, about 60 places for winter swimming are organized near the water.