The last days of winter were marked in Moscow by severe frosts, but you can not deceive animals. The raccoon woke up at the Moscow Zoo. Workers of the zoo say that in the autumn raccoons first plunged into winter sleep, but they have a shallow. Raccoons periodically wake up and come out of the hole, as if they are checking whether spring has come. Here and now they walk around the aviary, climb a tree. All within the limits of the norm. A little later in March wilder marmots, brown and Himalayan bears, jerboas, bats.
Jokers already in the networks say that the stuffed winter for Pancake week was burnt poorly, it returned and began to take revenge. February 23, the cold weather returned to the capital, yes, such, even at the height of the winter, there was no. The Hydrometeorological Center declared an "orange" level of danger in the region, that is, natural disasters are possible, the weather is dangerous. On the night of February 28 in the Moscow region of Klin, the air temperature reached a record 30.3 degrees below zero. The night on Tuesday in the region in general became the coldest in the whole winter. In Tushino, thermometer bars fell to 23.5 degrees. Record winter frost in the capital was recorded in 1963 - 24.9 degrees. It is expected that on Wednesday the warming will start, and the air temperature will rise to -16 degrees.
The Ministry of Emergency Measures recommends wearing warm clothes, moving more, using hand and face creams. By order of the city government, land transport was transferred to the enhanced mode of operation. On the streets run more than 6,500 buses, trams and trolleybuses.
On the eve of an additional inspection of door and window seals in rolling stock. About 200 people with the support of 30 units of equipment are constantly serving the work of contact networks and infrastructure. Under the special control there are tram ways, more than 900 turnouts have been processed by a special structure to prevent the formation of ice on them.
In the first days of March in the capital usually there are 5 degrees of frost. At nights, the air temperature can reach 20 degrees.