Roman Vilfand, Scientific Director of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center. TASSIt is reported that in the next few hours, difficult weather conditions are expected in the Volga region and the Urals.
“The weather will be very difficult in some parts of the Volga Federal District. Heavy sleet, rain, freezing rain, sleet accumulation, ice expected in Samara region, precipitation in the form of sleet and rain in Tatarstan, blizzard, ice, wind up to 22 m/s, sleet on roads, snowdrifts and …snow porridge,” Vilfand shared.
Also in the coming hours a severe snowstorm is possible in the Orenburg region, ice and wind with strong winds up to 23 m / s, and in Bashkortostan and the Perm Territory – heavy and wet snow.
In addition, adverse weather conditions will come to the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions. Wet snow, blizzards, ice and strong winds of up to 23 m/s are expected there.
Nadezhda Tochenova, formerly Deputy Head of the Central Directorate of Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring spokeThe first day of spring in the capital will be windy and quite cool.