Record high temperatures return to Russia

RIA Novosti
Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:12 UTC

Not for the first time this year, a number of Russian regions are experiencing record high temperatures, with the mercury rising to up to 14.5 degrees Celsius (58.1 degrees Fahrenheit) in Moscow on Thursday, the Meteonovosti weather portal said.

The first weather records since the start of this fall were registered on Tuesday and Wednesday, when temperatures in the capital rose to 11.9 degrees Celsius (53.4 degrees Fahrenheit) and 13 degrees Celsius (55.4 degrees Fahrenheit) respectively.

"A third temperature record was recorded on Thursday. At night, the temperature [in Moscow] was almost two degrees higher that the previous absolute maximum of 12.6 degrees Celsius (54.7 degrees Fahrenheit) registered in 1927," the statement said.

Average temperatures have exceeded the norm by 9-11 degrees Celsius (17-21 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past three days as a result of warm air masses from western Europe, the statement said.

The weather in Russia will remain abnormally warm for at least the next five days, said the head of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center, adding that the record temperatures have also been recorded in Siberia and a number of other Russian regions.

A record-breaking heat wave gripped Central Russia for much of the summer, sparking large-scale wildfires across the country and causing the worst drought in more than a century. The fires killed several dozen people and left over 3,500 homeless.

Reader Comments

gdpetti · 2010-11-12T11:02:51Z

Swing high, swing low...

Reminds me of that see-saw or tetter-totter effect I saw on PBS years ago as a researcher attempted an early computer program on magnetic pole flip.

sophiesworld · 2010-11-12T15:40:03Z

Same thing

happening in Switzerland recently...

GP2 · 2010-11-14T14:54:41Z

Actually

the weather belongs to what in physics is called a "chaotic system". Chaos theory mathematics really prove the inability of mathematics to control such systems. The weather in the "good old days" when the environment was not so f...ed up
was somewhat smoother in the sense that winters were winters then changed smoothly through springs to summers which smoothly changed through falls back to winters. But the weather being a rather fragile system depends on what is called the equilibrium of the eco-system.Being such wise guys we managed to upset to say the least that equilibrium that's the first part of the equation making the world climate behave accordingly. Questions answered or all that was chinese for you ?

zhenqing · 2010-11-14T17:51:11Z

Same thing also

It's the same in Poland. Today our souther regions experienced 19-20 degrees Celsius, and it was 10-11 in the north.
Some trees have even started to bloom again (or so they say). I, personally, see lot of daisies every day. And in some places the grass is so green, it looks like spring.

I think it's the warmest November I remember.