Snowfalls will continue to break deep into the Russian Plain. Before this, winter had already reminded the northerners of itself: in Arkhangelsk on Thursday, May 2, a real May snowstorm raged. The same fate befell the residents of Syktyvkar. On May 5, a partly cloudy Scandinavian anticyclone and a stormy North Atlantic cyclone collided over the Russian Plain. Along the dividing line of these vortices in the atmosphere, a powerful northern jet is formed, carrying cold air masses from the Barents Sea to the region.
It is expected that in the coming days the icy breath of the Arctic will begin to be felt across most of the Russian Plain. If today only the northern regions were in the zone of night frosts, then on May 6 its border moves south immediately by 850 km – right up to the Belgorod-Saratov line.
After a very warm end to April, which in the central regions of European Russia turned out to be 3–5° warmer than the climate norm, and, for example, in Tula and Ryazan it became the warmest in the entire history of instrumental weather observations, May began with a cold snap. Thus, already on the night of May 2, frosts were observed in the Ivanovo, Yaroslavl and Kostroma regions, in the north of the Volga region – in the Nizhny Novgorod, Kirov regions, and in the North-Western region, where frosts reached the southernmost regions: Pskov, Novgorod, Leningrad and Vologda regions.
May holidays in Novosibirsk
Frosts will return again – they are likely on Monday and Tuesday nights. Local frosts cannot be ruled out on Wednesday night either. This will be a difficult period for gardeners and gardeners – they will have to take care of heat-loving plants and young shoots.