On December 29, 1942, in Moscow thermometers read from -5 to -12 degrees, and in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) from 1 to -5. Today, December 29, 2022, in the official capital it is from -1 to -5, and in the northern capital from -3 to -5.
On this day 80 years ago, a sharp temperature jump occurred in Vladivostok. While yesterday's day here was the coldest in December, when thermometers showed -21 degrees, by December 29, 1942, the warmest day of the first winter month was recorded – 2 degrees above zero. Today the forecast for Vladivostok is from -8 to -14.
Next on the list by minimum temperatures on this day were:
- Irkutsk – -11…-18,
- Omsk – -11…-15,
- Khanty-Mansiysk – -9…-14,
- Astrakhan – -1…-14,
- Krasnoyarsk – -9…-11,
- Ufa – -4…-11.
Today, December 29, 2022, it is much colder in Khanty-Mansiysk (-16…-21) and Krasnoyarsk (-6…-16). In Irkutsk, Omsk and Ufa the temperatures are roughly the same as in the past. And in Astrakhan it is significantly warmer – 3...-2.
Frosts of down to 10 degrees on December 29, 1942, were recorded in Yekaterinburg, then Sverdlovsk (-7…-10), Kazan (-2…-7), Nizhny Novgorod, at the time Gorky (-3…-6), Arkhangelsk (-1…-9), Samara, which bore the name Kuibyshev (-6…-10), Syktyvkar (-2…-5) and Volgograd, then called Stalingrad (-6…-8). Today's weather differs from what it was 80 years ago. In Nizhny Novgorod (-6…-11), Yekaterinburg (-12…17), Kazan (-7…-10), Arkhangelsk (-8…-12), and Syktyvkar (-13…-16) the frosts are a little stronger. In Samara (-5…-8) and Volgograd (1…-2) the temperature is higher.
