Overview
- Russia’s Hydrometcenter raised the Moscow Region’s weather risk to orange until 21:00 MSK due to rain turning to wet snow, icing on roads, and heavy accretion on trees and wires.
- Moscow and St. Petersburg recorded their first settled snow of the season, with Moscow receiving roughly one third of November’s monthly norm overnight and its wettest 15 November in decades.
- Major Moscow hubs—Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky—reported normal operations with runway clearing and deicing, after only minor overnight delays.
- Rosaviatsia removed temporary flight restrictions at several regional airports, including Samara, Saratov, Kazan, Nizhnekamsk, Ufa and Izhevsk, though St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo still showed 20+ delays on arrivals and departures.
- Elsewhere, a severe Arctic storm kept more than 700 passengers waiting in Norilsk with winds forecast up to 30 m/s, while meteorologists expect a sharp Siberian warm‑up from 17 November and temperatures above normal in the Moscow region next week.