Category weather

The way it should be

Central Russia has gotten too much snow in the past week – ideally, it should have fallen over a few weeks, not days – but the cities and the countryside are finally looking the way they ought to in the…

The first snowfall of June

Searching YouTube and Google images for snow in Moscow “June 2” (in Russian) and the Russian #weathergonemad tag on Instagram should turn up enough results to give one an idea of yesterday’s snowfall in Central Russia. A chance event is…

“Freak winds” in Moscow

Storm warnings were duly issued, but no one expected the hurricane to inflict so much damage in so little time. The BBC reports: At least 11 people died when a severe thunderstorm hit the Russian capital Moscow, health officials say.…

Winter’s back

For most people who care about Easter, the holiday was yesterday; Orthodox Russians will have to wait till May. Looking out of the window here in Moscow one could say it makes sense on purely meteorological grounds. It snowed again…

Weather bane

We’ve had another round of frosty weather for over a week now, and it’s getting tiresome. You have to eat and sleep more when you’re exposed to low temperatures, and since there are few parking garages in the center of…

Snow bliss

The weather in Moscow has been positively delightful for three days or so — snow, snow everywhere, and a light frost (-5C or so). Ah, just like in childhood [as Russians say]. See the photo at Scraps of Moscow.

Snow

The fall of 2004 was — indeed not “has been” but “was” since it a look out of my window can easily prove it is decidedly over — unusually warm, or, to be precise, its warm period lasted longer than…