'Global Warming' - Moscow weather: Cold spell could break records.

Moscow weather: Cold spell could break records.(MN).

Moscow is in the grips of a cold spell, and the abnormally low temperatures are not about to let up, weather forecasters say.

The first week of October will be chilly, with temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday hovering between 0 and 7 degrees Celsius, according to Gidrometcenter, Russia’s official weather forecasting service. According to Fobos, temperatures could drop to minus 3 degrees, with snow and ice.

Those temperatures are about 5-7 degrees lower than the average for this time of year.

“This week the weather will be more like it is in late October,” RIA Novosti quoted a statement from the Fobos Weather Center as saying. “We are under the spell of very cold air. It’s quite likely that there will be record-low temperatures at night.
By Thursday, temperatures could drop to negative 5 degrees at night.
Slightly warmer weather is expected towards the weekend, but the temperatures will still be 4 degrees below the norm, according to Gidrometcenter.