This year & # 39; s winter in Russia will be freezing. This was announced in a conversation with reporters by the Head of the Meteorology and Climate Department of the State Federal Budget Institution “ Central UGMS '' Nikolay Tereshonok, reports RIA Novosti.
The climatologist noted that this year the highs have been delayed in the country. According to him, the current cold snap is due to the influence of the arctic high.
In winter, as Tereshonok notes, high pressure and possibly severe frosts can also prevail.
In his opinion, the appropriate weather will be established in the territory of the Channel in the Urals. At the same time, Siberia will be under the influence of Mongolian and Siberian highs, and Yakutia will have the usual climate for this region.
World Wildlife Fund Climate Program Director Alexei Kokorin, on tour, predicted warmer winters due to global climate change, and also urged to prepare for changing weather conditions.
Earlier, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation, Roman Vilfand, also said that the cold and rainy weather will rise in the central part of European Russia. here the end of the next working week.