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[Regnum] Moscow and the Moscow region may set heat records in the next few days. This was reported on July 9 by the Hydrometeorological Center.
“We expect that in the next few days the heat could set new highs for the entire history of meteorological observations,” TASS quoted a representative of the Hydrometeorological Center as saying.
The hottest July 9th in Moscow was in 1903. Then the air temperature was +33.5 degrees.
“According to weather forecasters, this afternoon the thermometer readings may rise to +33–34 degrees in the capital region,” the weather forecaster noted.
For July 10, the absolute maximum temperature is +33.4 degrees. This was the day in Moscow in 1996. The next day that same summer also set a record of +35.6 degrees. The record for July 12 belongs to 1903 - then the air temperature in Moscow was +34.5 degrees.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on July 8, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand said that abnormal heat is expected in the European part of Russia in the coming days. In the Voronezh, Belgorod, Lipetsk and Tambov regions, up to +38 degrees is expected, in the Kaluga and Tula regions - up to +36-37 degrees.
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