Mikhail Leus, a leading expert at the Phobos weather center, said the record for snowfall in Moscow was broken for the second day in a row.
“Moscow is updating its precipitation record for the second day in a row. As a result, today, snowfall reached Moscow, according to the city's base weather station, VDNH, 14 mm of precipitation (8 mm at night and 6 mm during the day) – this became a new daily record for precipitation on January 28, the previous achievement belonged to 2005 and amounted to 13.7 mm,” he wrote in his article. telegram channel.
According to Leus, 27 mm of rain fell on the capital in two days, 51% of the January climate standard. In total, since the beginning of the month, 76 mm of rain has fallen in Moscow, equivalent to 143% of the monthly norm – this is fourth place in the list of the wettest Januarys of the 21st century. Leus emphasized that only 1 mm of precipitation separates January 2026 from the three places with the heaviest rainfall.
In addition, daily precipitation records have been updated in the Moscow region. In Kolomna and Mozhaisk, precipitation fell by 12 mm, 1 and 5 mm, respectively, higher than the 2005 record. The heaviest rainfall in the Moscow region fell on Naro-Fominsk – 15 mm – almost a third (31%) of the January norm.
