Due to heavy snowfall in Moscow and the Moscow region, new daily records for precipitation were set. In Kolomna, this figure was 22 mm, 11 mm higher than the previous record for this day set in 2012. The leading expert at the Phobos weather center, Mikhail Leus, announced this on Friday, January 9.
He noted that 21 mm of rain was recorded in Mozhaisk – this value is 9 mm higher than the previous record set in 1986.
– In the past 24 hours, according to the city's base weather station, VDNKh, rainfall in the capital was 22 mm – 9.1 mm higher than the previous record lasting exactly half a century. But the absolute daily record for January still stands, let us remind you that it was 23 mm and remained until January 8, 1970,” the meteorologist noted.
Leus emphasized that on Friday, 42% of the monthly rainfall in January fell in the capital, he reported. telegram-channel.
The leading expert at the Phobos weather center, Evgeniy Tishkovets, said that by Friday evening in the capital, snow had increased to 65 centimeters. These results were absolute record for January for the entire history of meteorological observations in the region.
