Extremely low temperatures have been recorded in the Asian part of Russia for the last two weeks, with frosts reaching 40 degrees. This was reported to RIA Novosti the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand.
“I don’t even know what to call it, anticyclone … It has been wandering around the Asian part of the country for half a month,” said the forecaster.
He specified that in the next five days the temperature will be below normal by 10-15 degrees in the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in the Omsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk regions and the Altai Territory. In the Kurgan region it will be seven degrees colder than normal, in the Primorsky Territory – by seven to ten, in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – up to 15 degrees below normal. Minus 40 and below is expected in Altai and in the Omsk region.
According to Vilfand, such a protracted anticyclone is rare. The last time this was observed was in January 2006.
Previously, Anna Lapchik, head of the Hydrometeorological Center of the West Siberian Department for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring said that after the New Year, Western Siberia will be covered by a second wave of abnormal frosts.