Thursday night in Moscow was the warmest for 77 years for this date

The night on Thursday in Moscow became the warmest since the beginning of autumn: the minimum temperature at VDNKh was plus 16.5 degrees, which is 9-10 degrees higher than the climatic norm, Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist of the Phobos weather center, said in a Telegram channel.

“The last night in the capital was the warmest since the beginning of September. According to the base weather station of the city, VDNKh, the minimum was plus 16.5 degrees - this is 9-10 degrees higher than the climatic norm of this night. With this indicator, the last night shares the first place in the list of the warmest with the night of September 2, the weather forecaster wrote.

According to him, it was not so warm on the night of September 24 in Moscow for 77 years, that is, for all the time of observations at the weather station VDNKh. In addition, the average daily temperature in the capital for the eighth consecutive day exceeds the norm by more than 3 degrees.

Anomalous heat will remain in the day: thermometers in the city will rise to plus 20 degrees, Leus added.

On Friday, the capital is waiting for “cold changes in the weather”: at night the temperature will drop to almost plus 10 degrees, in the afternoon it will be about plus 15 degrees. On the night of Saturday and Sunday in Moscow will be plus 5-7 degrees, concluded the weather forecaster.

A year ago on the night of September 23, the temperature dropped to plus 16.6 degrees, which broke the record of 72 years ago, reported the weather forecaster “Phobos” Evgeny Tishkovets. At the same time, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand noted that warming to plus 20-25 degrees is possible in various periods of September.