This August 29, said a representative of the Prosecutor General's Office, Alexander Kurennoy, writes Fontanka.

Based on the audit results, prosecutors came to the conclusion that "one of the causes of the catastrophic consequences of a natural disaster was an inaccurate forecast," which indicated that wind gusts would not exceed 22 meters per second. In fact, the wind speed reached 30 meters per second.

In addition, the supervisory authority noted that in Adygea, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Mari El, Chechnya, the Nenets Autonomous District and the Altai Territory there are no stations for monitoring the state of atmospheric air.

The Prosecutor General's Office noted that only 7 percent of observation points are able to continuously record air pollution.

Roshydromet declined to comment on the claims of the Prosecutor General's Office, and the Ministry of Natural Resources noted that the supervisory authority does not have all the information "about the real situation in this area".

May 29 in Moscow and the Moscow region was a hurricane, which killed 16 people. The wind knocked over 30 thousand trees and damaged more than 2 thousand cars.

Before the hurricane Muscovites did not receive notifications from the Ministry of Emergencies about the weather worsening. The agency then stated that the forecast received from Roshydromet did not imply emergency notification.