Moscow snowfall Streets, roads, answers to questions.
Moscow snowfall Streets, roads, answers to questions.
According to forecasters, Muscovites were threatened by a southern cyclone, but an endless bag of snow was added last weekend. How the city and the townspeople survived the winter trials, this is our picture, in addition to the answers to your questions that were received during the New Year holidays in Moscow.
The air temperature dropped to -20 degrees, and on Sunday night - 25. In this regard, it was decided to maximize the temperature in the city heating system. On Saturday, the city authorities reported that the temperature in the city housing economy was raised to 130 degrees. The Moscow United Energy Company said that the system works smoothly, without interruptions, and thanks to this it became much warmer in the apartments - 22-24 degrees Celsius. But many Muscovites did not sit at home, went on Saturday and Sunday, on their planned trips, shopping and walking. And, of course, we met with heavy traffic and congestion. The level of traffic congestion that day reached 8 points. Snowfall and numerous accidents became the main reason for the congestion. The fact is that the city had not yet had time to remove the snow that fell on January 14, but here it fell again. "During the day, more than 15 centimeters of snow fell. This is a lot, given the low temperatures, moreover, Saturday snowfall closed the monthly norm of precipitation, which in January is 42 mm. About 10 thousand pieces of equipment and about 60 thousand communal services with shovels and walk-behind tractors were removed. Every three to four hours, the municipal vehicles carried out a continuous sweeping of the carriageway of roads, sidewalks and courtyards, but from above everything fell and fell and this continued for several days. at least the average speed did not exceed, in the main, 30-40 kilometers per hour.
And according to the results of the past days, one can safely note that the city services as well as the authorities were ready to meet such bad weather and worked hard to cope with bad weather.
Frosts continue, the main streets of the city are cleaned, there is traffic in the city.