IA “Meteonovosti” / Sunday, April 21
Record Cold Volga
An anticyclone spreading over the southern half of the European territory in the last days brought record cold to a number of settlements in the Volga region. The average daily air temperature is 4-6 degrees lower than multi-year values.
In Bezenchuk (Samara region), on the night of April 20, the thermometer dropped to -6.3 degrees, lower than the previous record by 2.5 degrees in 1978. Low daily temperature records in the Volgograd region have also been broken. In Elton it was -1.7, beating the record 90 years old. -4.4 was recorded in Frolovo, which is 0.3 degrees lower than the previous one set in 1945. And in the Orenburg region in Dombarovsk on the night of April 20 a frost of -8.2 degrees beat the former record of -4.9 set in 1998.
http://www.hmn.ru/index.php?index=1&ts=190421133721
Far Eastern Record Cold
On the eve of the cyclone over southern Yakutia including the central and southern regions of the Khabarovsk Territory, the average daily temperature was 2-4 degrees lower than multi-year values. The new record low is now -5 degrees, lower than the previous one less than a degree set in 2001. In the European Autonomous Region in the village of Yekaterino-Nikolsky, the thermometer dropped to -8.3 degrees, leaving behind the record of -6.1 degrees set 63 years ago.
http://www.hmn.ru/index.php?index=1&ts=190421112834
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