Held in several districts of St. Petersburg hail had melted by evening
Users of social networks on Saturday, posted pictures of the white cover on the streets, which they mistook for snow.
SAINT PETERSBURG, July 22. /TASS/. Meteorologists of St. Petersburg recorded hail in the Northern capital in July Saturday, in the evening it melted, more precipitation until the end of the day is not expected. About TASS reported in the North-West Hydrometeorological centre.
“Today in the city for 11 minutes there was a hail, there was no snow. More hail are expected today”, — said the Agency interlocutor. At the same time, users of social networks on Saturday, posted pictures of the white cover on the streets, which they mistook for snow.
North of the city on Saturday afternoon there was a thunderstorm and torrential rains, in the South Sunny weather, the correspondent of TASS. Petersburg residents in social networks reported the hail in the Northern areas. The evening weather is also changeable: a fine rain gives way to Sunny weather with occasional showers.
Petersburg residents posted photos are shrouded in a dense white shroud, like the castle, the lawn on Moskovsky prospect. On the street of Marshal Zhukov (the neighbouring district) at this point the sun was shining and there was a rainbow, snow and hail was observed. After an hour on Moskovsky prospect of the consequences of the hail is practically no places in the shade were small white pile of melted hail.
In a press-service of EMERCOM in St. Petersburg, TASS reported that calls to the rescue due to bad weather is not fixed.
According to the fgbi “North-West administration of Hydrometeorology and environmental monitoring”, July 22 in the Northern capital, the day was a plus 18-20 degrees at night in some areas of the city the temperature dropped to 15 degrees Celsius.
