The chief forecaster of St. Petersburg said that “Zelda” had been eyeing St. Petersburg yesterday. But it worked out.
“Here is a powerful convective cloud approached St. Petersburg yesterday at the beginning of the night. But the city was lucky, all dangerous phenomena passed a little to the east, next to Shlisselburg. There are no observations there, but nothing can be hidden from the locator. There were intense showers, hail and even squally wind intensifications. The hail has already been shown, there are 3-4 centimeters in the photo.
In St. Petersburg, thunderstorms and showers passed throughout the territory. In the west, in the area of Petrodvorets, 10 mm fell, in the city center – from 15 mm, the entire east of the city in the region of 20 mm of rain.
Now it’s calm and the air warms up to +30 degrees. But in the evening, a cold front passes through the Leningrad region, starting from the southern regions. Everything repeats once more, showers and thunderstorms, hail and squalls. Of course, everything will go locally, and it will not be possible to predict exactly where. Therefore, it is better to be at home in the evening, and not to walk once once more, ”wrote Alexander Kolesov in his Telegram channel.