The consequences of the “snow Apocalypse” in Moscow traffic jams and millions of cubic meters of snow
MOSCOW, 5 Feb — RIA Novosti. Heavy snowfall last weekend in Moscow, provoked transportation difficulties and cork, and of city streets for the last days exported 1.2 million cubic meters of snow.
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Heavy snowfall and freezing rain hit the Moscow region on the weekend of 3-4 February. According to weather forecasters, such snowfalls occur once in a hundred years. As a result of rampant disaster killed one person, there are victims. On Monday, the snowfall has eased, but was established frosty weather down to minus 13 degrees.
Monthly norm of snow
Heavy snowfall was on Saturday and Sunday. As told RIA Novosti the weather forecasters of the centre “a Fobos” on Sunday in Moscow fell a record amount of precipitation, height of snow cover in Moscow by Monday morning rose to 43 inches.
The Deputy mayor of Moscow Pyotr Biryukov has confirmed that over the weekend in the city fell more than 100% of the monthly norm of precipitation. “This amount of snow for the first time in 100 years. Intensity of snow, the weather, which has varied — snow, sleet, icing on the branches of trees, so the test is another for of public utilities,” he said.
There were more than a hundred cases of falling trees on cars.
According to forecasters, snow in Moscow will weaken on Monday.
“Today Muscovites expects cloudy with clearings weather, intermittent snow, the temperature during daylight hours will be 9-11 degrees, in the region — from minus 8 to minus 13,” — said the Agency interlocutor.
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The utility work
The consequences of the snowfall eliminate thousands of employees and utilities. The mayor assured that they are working around the clock.
Sunday in the snow was involved more than 4 thousand trucks and more than 15.5 thousand snowplows. Biryukov said that the streets of Moscow is taken out and cut about 1.6 thousand fallen trees.