The 1951 temperature record was equaled in Moscow

The record high temperature, recorded in 1951, was equaled yesterday in Moscow according to Gevgeny Tiskovets, executive of the meteorological center “Phobos”.

Mercury at the central meteorological station of the Russian capital in the VDNH park in Moscow reached 34.1 degrees Celsius.

«This is the second consecutive record high temperature and the sixth for the last 25 days“, Where in European and central Russia extreme conditions prevail with unusually high temperatures.

According to the annual report of the Russian Federal Agency for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Surveillance (RosGidroMet) in the last decade there has been an increase in the average temperature of 0.51 degrees Celsius in Russia, while the average global index is around 0.18 degrees.

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