Warm Weeks Ahead
- By Unknown
- Dec. 03 1996 00:00
"Temperatures in November were on average 5.5 degrees higher than usual," said Mark Naischuller, head of the center's scientific research department.
In the past 117 years -- since records have been regularly kept -- snow cover has never come later than Dec. 1 to the center of the Russian capital.
Naischuller said the average temperature this November was 3.0 degrees Celsius, compared with the customary minus 2.5 degrees Celsius.