This Winter Warmest On Record In Russia; Most Regions +2C; Siberia +4-7C

[hatrack]

MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The outgoing winter, which ended a couple of days ago according to the calendar, has proved the warmest in the history of weather monitoring in Russia conducted since 1891, the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring said on Monday.

Over the past winter the average air temperatures in almost all Russian regions were two degrees above the norm as a minimum; on some territories it was even warmer. The past winter proved particularly mild in the Central, Northwest, Siberian and the Far Eastern Federal Districts, where seasonal air temperatures were 4-7 degrees above the norm.

The 2014-2015 winter beat a record earlier set by the 1962 winter by 0.5 degrees. The past winter was one of the four warmest winters in Moscow’s history, ranking fourth after almost equally warm winters registered in 1961, 1989 and 2008.

The mild winter in Russia was a result of being centered in a zone of abnormal warm weather that set in on the whole territory of Eurasia, in the west of North America, starting from Alaska to Mexico, and spreading to the central Atlantic area. It was warm whirls of wind from the Atlantic area that made the past winter in Russia particularly mild.

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http://tass.ru/en/non-political/780560

[Fred Sanders]

1. But the Eastern USA was colder..Russia, the rest of the world outside Pundit Paradise is irrelevant.

Weather reporting and the awesome stupidity evident is the best proof available that there really is a Closed Loop Circle of Political and Media Corruption driven by a perpetual blizzard of money.

CNN and their Blizzardmobiles....they are laughing in the face of their viewers....as their ratings go up...stupid viewers will believe anything if we repeat it enough....

The entire media on climate change is like Inhofe throwing a snowball in the Senate...stupid as a snowflake, rich as Big Oil can make them.

[Demeter]

2. Because the US Midwest has be freezing to death under the Siberian High

and we would be grateful if the Russians would take it back now. 7F (-20C) and finally coming out of a coma, here....we should be experiencing "normal" weather after tonight.