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Moscow breaks records for positive temperatures. January pours rain on the capital, and Muscovites are waiting for snow, sledges, skating rinks and snowmen. Scientists talk about the obvious impact on the climate of global warming, which can be felt in your own skin.
And while the inhabitants of the central region are waiting for a real winter, we decided to remember when Moscow experienced the minimum recorded temperatures. This happened more than once.
The absolute record was set in the winter of 1940, when thermometers showed -42°C. When the lowest temperatures in Moscow were recorded in the entire history of observations, read this article.
10 1997, -28,8 °С
Residents of the northern regions of our vast motherland will surely chuckle when they learn that one of the lowest temperatures in Moscow was recorded in 1997 and amounted to almost -29 ° С.
However, for the Muscovites, who were by and large not accustomed to such surprises from nature, it was no laughing matter. Residents hurriedly warmed themselves, took out sheep’s mittens and wrapped their children’s noses with scarves.
In the previous year, 1996-1997, the winter turned out to be surprisingly warm, but December of the following year was able to fall into the list of the coldest in Moscow for the entire period of observation.
9. 1991, -29,6 °С
The years 1990-1991 were marked by a real shock for the inhabitants of the future Russian Federation: the collapse of the Soviet Union. And while the country was shaking in a fever, while power was changing, and territory after territory was breaking away from the vast land, Moscow was covered by a cold front.
Thermometers unanimously showed -29,6 ° С, frost crackled outside the window, the wind threw prickly snow into the faces of passers-by, so cold and crumbly that not a single snowball could come out of it.
The coldest day was February 1, but by the end of the month the temperature rose sharply, and March was marked by thaws and mud.
8. 2017, -29,9 °С
Winter 2016-2017 The media called “perfect”. She was primordially Russian, cold, invigorating and snowy. December pleased the inhabitants of Moscow with a large amount of snow, we covered the yards, Christmas tree markets and the fabulous Manezhnaya Square.
True, on New Year’s Eve Muscovites expected a sharp warming. The average temperature was -5,7 °C, which is even higher than the norm, but on Christmas Day 2017 frosts hit. Thermometers showed -29,9 ° С, and the end of the month was marked by a large amount of snowfall.
7. 1970, -30,1 °С
January 1970 was remembered by many as especially snowy. The snowstorms began in the evening, and in the morning only trolleybuses and buses were running, the trams stopped. And even then it was possible to drive only along the central streets, all the yards were covered with snow. And I had to go to the store in the city center, because all the products were brought there, cars with bread did not reach the periphery.
There were bitter cold -30,1 ° С, especially bright stars and a large horned month burned in the high sky. The snow was dry and almost crystal clear. By lunchtime, Moscow was cleared of snow using all available mechanized means, some people even remember tanks, but the capital stood cold, sparkling and clean.
6. 1976, -30,2 °С
All over the world, 1976 was marked by the XII Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck. At that time, athletes from the USSR won 27 medals, outstripping the GDR team in the overall team standings and taking first place.
And while Vladislav Tretyak proudly carried the flag of the USSR, while the athletes fought for every medal, severe frosts hit Moscow. The temperature dropped a little -30 ° СThe wind picked up the snow and threw it in your face.
The minimum temperature was recorded on February 5, 1976, just the day after the official start of the XII Winter Olympic Games. It gradually rose until February 9, when the thermometers froze at -8 ° C, then fell again to -20 ° C, but after that there were no more such severe frosts until the end of February.
5. 1972, -30,6 °С
January and 1972 turned out to be cold. If you look at the weather archive for that year, you can see that the temperature stayed at -20 ° C all month, justifying the glory of real Russian winters.
But January 15, 1972 turned out to be especially cold. On that day, frost hit, and the temperature dropped from -25 ° C, which is also not very warm, to -30,6 ° С. Until the end of January, the central region was cold, and only by February 9 did the temperature rise to a quite comfortable level of -9 °C.
However, the winter of 1972 was in itself long and harsh. Even in March, -20 °C was recorded, and only by the end of the first spring month did the temperature begin to rise to zero.
4. 2006, -30,8 °С
January 2006 turned out to be harsh throughout Russia, and in Moscow in particular. Meteorologists noted that the temperature minimums were anomalous for almost all areas.
The cold snap center formed over the southern and western regions of Siberia back in December, and then began to spread over almost the entire European part of Russia, bypassing only the northwestern regions.
The record in the Central Federal District was recorded in the Kostroma region, where the temperature at night dropped to -40 °C. In Moscow, it was a little warmer, before -30,8 ° С. The coldest day was January 18th.
3. 1987, -32,4 °С
The winter of 1987 was preceded by a warm autumn, and even at the beginning of December 1986 the temperature only slightly dropped to minus. But in the middle of the month it got colder, down to -20°C, the same weather awaited Muscovites on New Year’s Eve.
High black sky with stars and bitter cold. But even this was not a minimum, because a real Christmas cold snap was ahead of the residents. On January 7, 1987, the thermometers showed -31,5 ° C, and the next day, January 8, record -32,4 ° С.
And if an unprecedented amount of snow fell in the southern regions of the USSR, and many people remember how they literally walked through the fence of the house through snowdrifts, then in the central region there was almost no snow, the ground was frozen, and agricultural workers were still raking the consequences of the Christmas cold in May, when it turned out that many crops and trees froze.
2. 1979, -33 °С
Winter 1978-1979 was remembered by many residents of the then Soviet Union for its unprecedented cold weather. Then a very powerful Arctic cyclone formed over the Arctic, which quickly spread to the southwest, to the European part of the country.
Severe frosts hit in mid-December, but a record low was recorded on New Year’s Eve. Temperatures rose slightly in January 1979, but still remained uncharacteristically low for the central region. January 1 New Year met Muscovites 33-degree frost.
1. 1978, -38 °С
So, December 1978, during which the lowest temperature in Moscow was recorded and described by meteorologists. On December 31, on the eve of the long-awaited New Year’s holiday, the Moscow thermometers dropped to -38 ° С.
Extreme frosts, although they were short-lived, caused economic and domestic damage to the infrastructure of the city and its inhabitants. The transport stopped. Water in pipes and batteries froze, and they burst under pressure. Residents of some apartment buildings even had to be evacuated.
Fruit trees and shrubs were significantly affected – the soil was deeply frozen, and the root system of plants suffered.