Overview
- Forecasters report Moscow reaching about +8 to +10°C on Friday with cloudy skies and light showers before a front brings rain across the capital and region on October 18–19.
- Hydrometcenter guidance indicates temperatures will slip after the frontal passage, with Sunday night into Monday turning cooler despite milder days on Friday and Saturday.
- Regional centers in the Northwest forecast rain and wet snow with strong winds, including coastal gusts near 22–23 m/s in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and icy patches possible on roads.
- Saint Petersburg may log its first slight negative temperatures overnight into October 18, with an even colder night expected Sunday, while daytime weather turns sunny, calm and dry under an anticyclone.
- Siberian regions are set for a weekend warmup—Tomsk up to around +10°C and Novosibirsk near +7°C—though nights remain cold in places, with pockets from −14°C in Kemerovo to −22°C in high mountain areas of the Altai Republic and local winds to 12–14 m/s.