On the night of January 3, it will freeze to minus 5 degrees. The paths are very slippery. And during the day up to plus 2 degrees. The next cyclone will hit Moscow and the region and bring heavy snowfall.
And then, as Lyudmila Parshina, director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center, told Rossiyskaya Gazeta, a cold snap will begin. The cold will break through from the Urals. Windy weather is expected on January 4th. Snow can turn into a blizzard. The temperature is minus 3-5 degrees. On January 5, the snow will be light, at night up to minus 9 degrees, during the day minus 3-8 degrees.
A strong cooling is expected on the night of January 6, down to minus 15-20 degrees. During the day it will be up to minus 15. On Christmas night, according to the preliminary forecast, minus 22-27 degrees. During Christmas day – minus 20-25 degrees.
Parshina said that the coldest Christmas in Moscow was in 1959, when the temperature dropped below minus 35 degrees. Frosty January 7 was also in 2017, but it fell short of the records.