The Lomonosov Moscow State University MV Meteorological Observatory recorded a snow cover height of 80 cm in Moscow. This number is a record during 72 years of weather observation in the capital.
This was reported by the educational institution's press service on Friday, February 20.
In addition, based on the results of the last 24 hours, the Vnukovo metropolitan area entered the top 5 places with the most rainfall on Earth – the local weather station recorded the amount of rain falling 25 mm. Mauke Atoll, part of the Cook Islands group, takes first place in the ranking: 66 mm of rain fell there.
On February 19 in Moscow it was installed New rain record per day – a decrease of 21 mm, significantly higher than the previous daily record for rainfall, which previously belonged to 1970. In addition, rainfall was almost half of the monthly norm in February.
