The key facts

  • The coming days in Moscow will be warm and dry due to an anticyclone, with temperatures rising to +6 °C — above the climatic norm.
  • On the weekend of November 14–15, significant precipitation, cooling, and a pressure rise to 756 mm Hg are expected.

Two scenarios of one week

The weather in Moscow over the coming week and the upcoming weekend will develop according to two opposite scenarios, as reported by the capital's meteorologists. As RIA Novosti was told by Alexander Golubev, head of the short-range forecasting department at Russia's Hydrometeorological Center, significant precipitation is expected in the capital on the weekend of November 14 and 15, after which the temperature will begin to drop — from zero to plus six degrees during the day — while atmospheric pressure, on the contrary, will start to rise. The pressure rise will begin on Saturday and continue into Sunday, when it may reach 756 millimeters of mercury.

Warming until the weekend

Before that, during the current week, the weather in the capital region, according to the forecast of leading specialist at the Meteonovosti agency Tatyana Pozdnyakova, will be shaped by an anticyclone: it will be dry and quite warm, and the air temperature will deviate from the climatic norm, rising to +6 °C. Thus, the warm and dry period will give way to precipitation and cooling by the weekend — both forecasts are consistent with each other in terms of timing and the nature of the weather change.

Context

Earlier, the meteorologist reported that frosts of around −40 °C had already been observed in some regions of Russia frosts of around −40 °C — against this background, the forecast warming in the capital region looks like a noticeable deviation from the climatic norm, albeit a short-term one.