RIA Novosti reports on how such high temperatures this winter can be explained.
What weather forecasters predicted for winter 2024-2025
January turned out to be quite warm for residents of Moscow and the Moscow region, but back in November, Yandex Weather meteorologists predicted a positive deviation from the climate norm, although they did not rule out one-time severe cold snaps.
"Winter in the European part of Russia, the Urals and Siberia will be warmer than last year. The most significant deviations are predicted in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Samara, Ufa and japan mobile database Yekaterinburg. The average winter temperature in St. Petersburg (-3.4 degrees) may be higher than in Moscow, Kazan, Samara, Ufa, Nizhny Novgorod and Voronezh," forecasters noted in the fall .
The average seasonal temperature in Moscow, experts said, will exceed the climatic norm by 1.4 degrees and will be warmer than last year by 2.2 degrees. "The coldest month will be January: the temperature will be at -5.8 degrees. The warmest will be December, -3.7 degrees. The expected amount of precipitation will be within the average long-term indicators and will reach approximately 144 mm - 15% less than what fell in 2023," the statement said .
The experts' forecast is partly coming true, daytime temperatures in Moscow and the Moscow region are mostly around zero or slightly above zero, and at night they do not fall below minus eight. Moreover, Muscovites remember January 11 as the day when there was a truly spring shower.
What are the reasons for the warm winter of 2024-2025 in Russia
In Moscow, the temperature is 6-9 degrees above the climatic norm, it corresponds to the period of late March - early April. Scientific Director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia Roman Vilfand reported that such a temperature background is explained by the influx of warm air masses from the Atlantic and even from the northern regions of Africa.
“This year, since the beginning of December, the weather in the European part of Russia, as well as in the Urals, western and central Siberia, has been controlled by Atlantic air, which is extremely rare,” Vilfand said in a conversation with Lenta.ru.
Continental climate, the meteorologist explains, means that it is formed without the participation of air masses from the ocean. But this year the rule was broken: air masses, according to Vilfand, are moving not just from the Atlantic, but from the southernmost waters, from the Mediterranean Sea and northern regions of Africa.