Leading employee of the Phobos weather center, Evgeny Tishkovets, admitted that the climatic summer in Russia could start earlier than normal.
So, according to his forecast, in the third decade of May, the temperature standards are expected to be exceeded by at least 1-3 degrees.
“There will already be the onset of the climatic summer, which usually takes place in Moscow on May 28. But I think that we will definitely enter the summer according to the schedule, maybe even a little ahead of time, ”the URA quotes him. RU on Friday, April 30th.
At the same time, according to him, the temperature in the first ten days of May will be 2.5 degrees colder than the norm, and the second will be slightly warmer.
On April 28, Tishkovets gave a forecast about the arrival of a climatic summer in Moscow. According to his expectations, this will happen no later than May 28, and maybe a few days earlier than this date.
The next day, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center, Roman Vilfand, said that the air temperature in most Russian regions in May would be higher or at the normal level.
At the same time, on the same day, he allowed snow to fall in May in Moscow. According to him, snowfall is frequent this month, but the snow cover in the capital is unlikely to be established.