Overview
- Russia’s Hydrometcenter projects the Moscow region could drop to about −19°C on the night of January 9 with cloudy skies and snow.
- Preliminary guidance from the Hydrometcenter indicates the frost may strengthen to around −20°C on the night of January 10.
- The January 9 forecast calls for night temperatures of −19 to −14°C and daytime values of −17 to −12°C with northerly to northeasterly winds at 5–10 m/s.
- Phobos specialist Evgeny Tishkovets expects Central Russia to cool day by day, with nights of January 10–11 potentially reaching −17 to −22°C and locally down to −25°C.
- Phobos notes these values would be roughly 8–10°C below typical midwinter norms, and another Phobos forecaster says the cooldown begins Monday with a minimum expected by the night of January 10.