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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, January 29 (Xinhua) — The final month of the year has become the snowiest in Moscow in the last two centuries. This was reported on Thursday by the press service of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), citing data from the university's Meteorological Observatory, which recorded abnormal amounts of precipitation.
"This past January was the snowiest in Moscow in the last 203 years. The first month of 2026 was cold and unusually snowy in Moscow," TASS quotes the university as saying. The snowfalls were attributed to deep and extensive cyclones with intensified atmospheric fronts passing over the Moscow region.
According to the observatory, the air temperature in the Russian capital in January is one and a half degrees below the climatic norm, which for this month is minus 6.2 degrees Celsius.
According to Mikhail Lokoshchenko, head of the observatory and leading researcher at the Department of Meteorology and Climatology of the Faculty of Geography at Moscow State University, nearly 92 mm of precipitation was recorded in the capital on January 29, with the maximum snowdrift height reaching 59 cm. According to the scientist, despite the rapid warming of the climate, the snow depth in Moscow remains stable due to the overall increase in winter precipitation and the absence of thaws.
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