The strongest snowfall hit Moscow and the region, possibly the most powerful for the last 68 years for this time of year. A couple of days a monthly rainfall may fall. Weather forecasters promise that it will stop on the morning of March 5 and will be replaced by frosts up to 23 degrees, which is 10-12 degrees below the norm. Wednesday will begin warming, and on March 8 the region will cover a new powerful snowfall. Moscow marmots can sleep until March 23, before the early weather forecasters do not promise any heat.

And while in the capital a heavy snowfall is accompanied also by wind with gusts up to 20 meters per second. Utilities operate in enhanced mode. MOE appealed to the citizens with a request to bypass billboards, shaky structures and trees. Drivers were asked, without extreme necessity, not to drive a car. If the trip can not be avoided, keep the distance and observe the speed limit, be careful.

On the streets there is a mass of snow-removing equipment, 11 thousand units of equipment and thousands of janitors worked all night from Saturday to Sunday. In the strengthened mode, the metro metro operates, the interval between trains is reduced, the station's vestibules are often cleaned up. Started interruptions in the work of the capital's airports, detained more than 26 flights, another 20 - canceled. Railway transport while working in normal mode.

Snow drifts in Moscow reach half a meter, which, of course, is not the limit for winter, but not typical for March. On the highway M2 "Crimea" in the suburbs of KamAZ snowplower "caught up" the bus, one person was killed, two more were injured. On Mozhayskoye Highway there was an accident involving eight cars, but there were no casualties.

Quite weightless blizzards are raging in the Rostov region, the Khabarovsk Territory, the Far East. For the night in the Khabarovsk Territory several highways were blocked. In the Bryansk region, drivers often can not even leave the yard to the street.

On the highways of the Far East, many kilometers of traffic jams have been formed, large buses have been banned from entering the city center, dozens of long-distance flights have been canceled. Icy rain in the Rostov region caused a massive traffic accident on the highway M4 "Don" near the city of Shakhty. Faced about a dozen cars that received significant damage, but there were no victims.

A cyclone from Moscow will go to the Kostroma region, where now the frosts are up to 20 degrees.