Moscow region heading for air temperature of 39 degrees Celsius

14:13, 28 July 2010

MOSCOW. July 28. KAZINFORM Air temperature in Moscow region is apparently set for a new record, just one more time in a month already strewn with records that the vast majority of Muscovites would rather prefer to have never seen; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.

Weather forecasters say Wednesday will be hotter than any other day over the past 130 years that permanent climatic observations have been done.

"The air will be hot during the daytime and the temperature in Moscow will likely be between 37 degrees and 39 degrees Celsius," a duty officer at the Russian Center for Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring /Rosgidromet/.

The temperature readings for the Moscow region are predicted at much the same level of 34 degrees to 39 degrees.

On this background, heavy showers with hurricane-like winds may add to the complexity of the situation without any good effects on the ecological problems in the city, currently enveloped in thick acrid smog coming from peat bog fires in the east of the Moscow region.

Ecologists say the fumes from smoldering peat will remain the major source of air pollution in the city for quite some time.

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