Russia: St. Petersburg registers lowest ever recorded daily temperature

Follow us on Telegram: Subscribe to our channel! Meteorologists in St. Petersburg recorded the lowest ever daily temperature, in the early hours of Monday. Thermometers dropped to -20.9°, breaking a daily record low logged in 1893. A leading specialist of the Fobos weather centre Mikhail Leus announced on his Facebook page the record-breaking temperature. “Naturally, this night was the coldest since the beginning of winter,“ Leus said. Specialists of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “North-West Directorate for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring“ also confirmed the record cold weather in the Northern capital. They noted that in 1893 the temperature in the city dropped to -20.5 ° - a previous record daily low. According to forecasters, this early anomalous cold is associated with the influence of a relatively low-cloud and mostly dry Scandinavian anticyclone in the weather. It is n