In a number of territories of the Chelyabinsk region, an emergency regime was introduced due to unfavorable weather conditions.
This was reported by the press service of the regional government.
“In the Chelyabinsk region, 12 thousand people remain without electricity in 26 municipalities.
These are 4,813 private residential buildings and 10 socially significant objects (5 schools and 5 kindergartens), ”the government of the Chelyabinsk region explained.
According to the local online portal 74.ru, we are talking about Agapovsky, Varnensky, Kizilsky, Kartalinsky, Nagaybaksky, Oktyabrsky, Troitsky, Chesmensky districts and two urban districts: Verkhneuralsk and Lokomotivny.
In addition, the Ministry of Roads and Transport of the region reported that by 18:00 (16:00 Moscow time) restrictions were introduced for the movement of vehicles on 17 roads of regional importance.
Bad weather also caused delays in the movement of electric trains and long-distance trains on the South Ural Railway, while in Chelyabinsk there are problems with public transport: if buses and trolleybuses operate intermittently, then trams did not go on the line at all.
At the same time in the city, according to the Unified Duty Dispatch Service, lessons for pupils from grades 1 to 11 were canceled due to a severe blizzard and frost.
In addition, the press service of the department of federal highways "South Ural" announced the closure of traffic on the republican and regional highways in the Kurgan, Tyumen and Omsk regions.
“The reason for the traffic restriction is the deterioration of weather conditions (increased wind, upstream and downstream blizzard, blizzard).
Drivers traveling through the Kurgan region across the border with Kazakhstan should take this information into account.
If possible, it is better to refuse the trip, ”the message says.
The Siberian Department of Highways (Sibupravtodor) also reported that from 10:30 to 17:00 local time (from 7:30 to 14:00 Moscow time) traffic for passenger buses on federal highways in the Omsk region was closed due to severe snowstorms and visibility.
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The Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Chelyabinsk region stated that over the past two days on the roads of local, intermunicipal and regional significance "a tense situation has developed" due to snow drifts.
An operational headquarters has been created to monitor and stabilize the current situation.
In total, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations evacuated 244 vehicles, assisted 1,154 people, and sent 481 people to temporary accommodation centers.
“A group of 545 people and 265 pieces of equipment, including 167 people and 48 pieces of equipment from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, were involved in the events.
There are 118 Chelyabinskavtodor snow-removing equipment on the roads, 36 crews from the Chelyabinsk Region State Traffic Safety Inspectorate.
There are 5 mobile heating points in operation, ”the ministry said in a statement.
"There will be a significant increase in temperature"
The current weather situation will continue in the southern Urals until the next night.
This was announced to RT by the leading specialist of the Phobos weather center, Alexander Sinenkov.
“Tomorrow afternoon it will all stop, it will be sunny, but frosty, the temperature is within -18 ° С ...- 20 ° С, but by weekends, on Saturday, it will get warmer to -8 ° С ...- 10 ° С , while in Chelyabinsk there will be snowfalls again.
In other regions, the peculiarity lies in the fact that almost the whole week in the center of the European part of Russia warm air will flow, temperatures will rise everywhere, and this increase will be very significant - more than 20 degrees, up to positive values, "- said the forecaster.
According to him, a similar situation awaits Moscow residents.
“This is the kind of weather that will last in Moscow practically until the weekend, and then again a slight drop in temperature.
In general, the struggle between spring and winter.
Such abrupt changes in temperature occur when there is a west-east transfer of air masses, and it is in the middle latitudes that a confrontation between cold and heat occurs, "Sinenkov noted.
On Wednesday, February 24, snow is expected in the Russian capital, cloudy weather, the air temperature will be from -9 ...- 11 ° С, at night - up to -12 ° С, southeast wind, 5-10 m / s, in some places gusts up to 15 m / s.
In turn, Anatoly Tsygankov, Deputy Head of the Situation Center of Roshydromet, noted that a powerful cyclone that covered the southern Urals in the coming days will go east to Novosibirsk and Tomsk.
He also noted that residents of a number of regions faced abnormal cold weather.
“In general, if we take today, we have a negative anomaly at -10 ...- 12 ° C below normal - from the Caspian Sea to Rostov-on-Don, then Tatarstan, the central part of the Urals, the central part of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Orenburg, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, almost to Yakutia - everywhere temperatures are 8-12 degrees below normal, ”he said in an interview with RT.
According to the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, severe frosts in the morning hours of February 24 are expected in Ivanovo and in some places in the Ivanovo region (-35 ° C and below), in the Kirov (-40 ° C), Saratov (-37 ° C), Samara (-25 ° С with gusts of wind up to 18 m / s), Orenburg (-25 ° С with a northerly wind up to 20 m / s), Ryazan and Kostroma (up to -35 ° С) regions.