Petersburg is cold and snowy due to a new cyclone.
Po forecast Federal State Budgetary Institution “North-Western Department for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring”, on December 12, cloudy weather, snow, heavy in places, blizzard in some areas, strong wind in the followingnoon are expected. The roads are difficult, icy. The air temperature, which at night dropped to minus 6–8 degrees, and in some places to minus 11, will be minus 5–7 in the daytime.
Such an influence is exerted by the northeastern periphery of the active southern cyclone “Birgit”, explains Leading Specialist of the FOBOS Center Mikhail Leus. Atmospheric pressure, according to him, will fall and will be 748 mm Hg. Art., which is below the norm. It can fall from 8 to 13 mm of precipitation, which will add at least another 5–10 cm of snow cover.
According to Yandex.Weather, minus 7 is a low temperature for mid-December. Most often, according to the history of weather observations for 57 years, on this day it is cloudy in the city, from minus 8 at night to plus 2 in the daytime. The coldest December 12 was recorded in 1963, minus 25, and the warmest in 2000, plus 6.
A snowstorm and strong winds are expected once more on Tuesday night, and the snowfall will gradually subside during the day.
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