Evgeny Tishkovets, a leading employee of the Phobos meteorological center, warned that the maximum smoke density will be recorded in Moscow on the morning of August 21 due to the fires in the Ryazan region, he announced in a statement. telegram channel.
The specialist noted that in the Central Federal District the degree of fire hazard reached the fourth degree, and in the Ryazan region – one class higher. Tishkovets pointed out that this is mainly due to dry and hot August in the Central Federal District. The weather forecaster stated that only 3 mm of precipitation fell in Moscow.
In the next three days, Muscovites will be able to “take a break from the heat”, there will be short-term rains even in some southern regions of the Central Federal District, and the daytime temperature will not exceed 28 degrees, Tishkovets said. This period of temperature drop may be in the hands of firefighters fighting fires in the Ryazan forests. Also, the anticyclone over the Volga-Vyatka region will begin to gain momentum again and expand the “empire” of high atmospheric pressure, displacing the clouds, and the air temperature in Central Russia next week will exceed 30-35 degrees . As the Phobos weather forecaster noted, such anomalous figures for August are reminiscent of the record weather data of 1972, when the USSR led to a severe drought and disastrous consequences for agriculture.
The meteorologist noted that since the southeast wind will continue for three to five days, the smell of burning may be felt for a few more days.
Formerly Rosleskhoz accused The forestry authorities of the Ryazan region in order to hide the real scale of forest fires, which did not allow the timely accumulation of federal forces.