According to forecasters, a powerful anticyclone will last for about 12 days in Moscow, which meteorologists are a “greenhouse pot”. It is because of him that the capital will be very hot and dry for almost two weeks, and the rains will return to the city only in the second half of July.
It is reported by the Meteovesti portal, which provides forecasts from the Phobos weather center. It is noted that such long-term anticyclones are extremely rare, only in 1% of cases.
“A giant blocking anticyclone, which in meteorology is sometimes called a 'greenhouse cauldron', has established itself throughout the entire troposphere and is even traced in the lower stratosphere at an altitude of 10-12 km, blocking the paths to winds and blocking the western transport that brings stormy cyclones […] will last up to 12 days, ”the message says.
The center added that July 2021 will be included in meteorological history “as one of the driest in the last 55 years.”
We will remind, as the website kp.ru wrote, earlier the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia Roman Vilfand said that the abnormal heat in Moscow and the region will last until about July 13-14, and the thermometer will rise to +34 C. these days.
