"We're living in an intermediate phase of some kind of warming": snowfall in Siberia and the Far East has increased. And this is a bad sign.
В Irkutsk the norm has been exceeded by several centimeters over the last 15 years - plus 4 centimeters, in Krasnoyarsk — during this time, the record height of snowdrifts increased by nine centimeters, Khabarovsk и Omsk - by five, in Tyumen и Novosibirsk — per centimeter, according to research from the “To Be Precise” project.
"Precipitation is increasing across almost all of Russia, with the exception of the southern European part of the country. And since precipitation is increasing, the maximum snow depth will be greater."— explains climatologist Daria Gushchina.
This occurs because rising average temperatures increase the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, resulting in more precipitation. However, winter begins later and ends earlier. The snow-covered period across the country is shortening by 1,64 days every ten years, on average. Discussions about global warming are becoming more frequent in the regions.
"It's -5 in Ulan-Ude now... In January! -5!" "Irkutsk -4, so much for the weather," "Krasnoyarsk yesterday - +2. Tomsk the same. An anomaly, though," "Global warming means the melting of large glaciers like Greenland and Antarctica, as well as permafrost. <…> They recently found the carcass of a baby mammoth, because the pit where it was lying is melting more and more every year, and it's not freezing back. But that's nonsense, just some mammoths. What will happen to the power line supports in Tyumen is a big question. They've always sunk into the swamps anyway." — social media users are sounding the alarm.
Readers also complain NotMoscow:
"I've been living in Yugra for over twenty years. And this is the first winter where there haven't been any school cancellations (lessons cancelled due to freezing temperatures – ed.) before Epiphany. The temperature hasn't dropped below -25 degrees this year. Most often, it's -10-12… There's less snow than usual.", a reader from NeMoskva told Nizhnevartovsk district. - On the one hand, it's great: the kids are out playing, having winter fun. But on the other, something abnormal, strange, is happening in nature."
The reader is from Tomsk region He doesn't deny the strangeness of this winter, but insists that this has happened before:
“The sad thing is that after such a stupid winter, an equally stupid summer comes, — the Tomsk resident shares. "I think we're actually living in the midst of some kind of warming. Not great."
