LONDON, July 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --
- Record Summer High Temperatures in Moscow
Intourist UK http://www.intouristuk.com/- Russian Travel Specialist reports record high temperatures in Moscow. The blazing temperatures in Moscow last week soared still higher today, entering the record-books at 36 degrees C (=96.8 degrees F). Moscow was hotter today than Antalya, Hurghada or Bangkok.
Even Moscow's legendarily grumpy traffic-cops have been allowed to come to work in shorts and sandals - shirtsleeves and cut-off trousers and breeches seem to be standard office-wear too. Restaurants reported running out of ice as freezers failed to keep pace with demand. Younger people found alternative ways to cool-off in a flashmob water-fight yesterday at the pleasure-park which was formerly the USSR's "Exhibition Of Economic Achievement". Pavement cafes report booming business, and supplies of cold drinks - especially of Diet Coke - have been running out in many outlets and shops.
Some parts of the city reported poor air-quality as smog from burning peat-bogs outside the city was blown into the city centre.
No immediate let-up in the weather is forecast, and even flash rainstorms on Sunday evening failed to cool the temperatures.
Meteorologists are predicting that this abnormally hot weather will continue through to the end of July and into the first week of August. The hot weather remains centred on the European part of Russia - at Siberia's Lake Baikal, a popular summer vacation-spot, the mercury struggled to hit 20 degrees F.
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Moscow Correspondent
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