Overview
- Russia’s hydrometeorological service forecasts temperatures at least 5 degrees below normal in many areas, with extremes of −40 to −50 C in parts of Siberia, the Arctic and Yakutia, and severe frosts spreading into European regions later this week.
- Norilsk civil‑defence authorities cautioned that southern Taymyr could see readings of −50 C and below on January 14, with local schools allowing parents to keep children at home.
- Moscow’s snow cover reached 40–47 cm, near the January 13, 1942 record, and a new snowfall is expected from after 03:00 to evening on January 14 that could add about 7 cm as subzero temperatures persist.
- Powerful Far Eastern cyclones delivered damaging winds and heavy snow, with Kamchatka seeing 30% of a month’s precipitation in a day and gusts up to 50 m/s, widespread road disruptions in Primorye, and another Kamchatka cyclone forecast for the evening of January 14.
- A storm warning for Sochi and Sirius was extended for January 14 for wet snow, heavy in places, icing and hazardous snow accretion, while regions scale up responses including more than 1,500 road machines in Saratov and round‑the‑clock patrols in Moscow that assisted over 1,500 drivers.