Overview
- Morning measurements on January 11 showed 37 cm at the city’s VDNH base station versus a 25 cm norm, with readings from 37 cm at Balchug to 39 cm in Tushino.
- New Moscow reported 44 cm, while across Moscow Oblast depths ranged from about 30 cm in Dmitrov and Naro-Fominsk to 50 cm at Cherusti.
- Forecaster Mikhail Leus of the Phobos center said the snowpack would change little Sunday, with a southern cyclone likely adding 2–4 cm on Monday.
- Russia’s Hydrometcenter set a yellow warning from 23:00 to 09:00 on January 12 for expected snowfall and icy conditions, noting potential accumulation up to 10 cm by Monday evening and the heaviest snow in the southeast of the oblast.
- The January 9 storm ranked among the five strongest in 146 years of observations, delivering 21.4 mm of precipitation in a day and setting a daily record for that date.