Moscow temperatures break new record
18:10, 23 July 2010
MOSCOW. July 23. KAZINFORM The Moscow heat wave has broken a fourth record, with temperatures of 33.2 degrees Celsius (91.76 degrees Fahrenheit) on Friday. Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
This is 0.4 degrees Celsius higher than temperatures recorded on the same day in 1885.
For the past four weeks temperatures across western Russia have topped 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit), killing scores of people and creating what is thought to be the worst drought in the country since 1972.
The highest number of temperature records has been noted around Moscow. Temperatures near Domodedovo and Bykovo airports, to the southeast of the capital reached 38 degrees Centigrade (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit).
Russian meteorologists say the 2010 summer is one of the three hottest on record. Kazinform cites RIA Novosti. See www.en.rian.ru