{"id":967,"date":"2025-11-18T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/?p=967"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:34:43","slug":"moscow-sets-winter-heat-record-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/moscow-sets-winter-heat-record-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow sets winter heat record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Russian capital has surpassed an 85-year-old milestone following its latest first snowfall in decades, weather experts say<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has set a new warmth record for November, with temperatures reaching 9.9C (49.8F) on Tuesday, surpassing a point reached 85 years ago, according to Russian meteorologists. Weather experts are predicting significant rainfall that will erase the recent snowfall in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures in Moscow reached 9.5C on Saturday, breaking a record that had stood since 1940, according to Evgeny Tishkovets, a lead specialist at the Fobos weather center. The previous high for November 18 was 9.4C, a mark set 85 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;Just now, the record from 1940 has been exceeded,&rdquo;<\/em> Tishkovets stated on his Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<p>The record-breaking warmth follows significant rainfall that is washing away the season&rsquo;s first snow, which fell only three days earlier. The rain over two days could account for up to a third of the monthly precipitation norm, according to Roman Vilfand, the chief scientist at the Russian Hydrometeorological Center.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"People walk in a park in Moscow, Russia.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6781262420302741f21ff961-1.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/610688-russia-warm-winter\/\">Forecaster predicts \u2018no real winter\u2019 in Russia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Historically, the first snowfall in Moscow typically occurs in late October. However, this year&rsquo;s snowfall on November 15 marked one of the latest occurrences in the last four decades. Tishkovets pointed out that the latest recorded first snowfall happened in 2013 on November 27, while the earliest was on September 21, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>The meteorologists elaborated on the implications of these climate patterns, suggesting further deviations from historical norms.<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;Now the temperature has reached 9.5 degrees. It is the warmest November 18 since 1879,&rdquo;<\/em> Tishkovets said, highlighting that temperatures are still rising.<\/p>\n<p>However, his colleague Vilfand warned that a sharp temperature drop to 1C was expected in the capital by the evening, leading to icy conditions as wind picks up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian capital has surpassed an 85-year-old milestone following its latest first snowfall in decades, weather experts say Moscow has set a new warmth record for November, with temperatures reaching 9.9C (49.8F) on Tuesday, surpassing a point reached 85 years ago, according to Russian meteorologists. Weather experts are predicting significant&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/moscow-sets-winter-heat-record-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasnano.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}