Moscow Experiences Coldest End of June on Record

Monday, June 30, marked the coldest end of June in Moscow's recorded history, Yevgeny Tishkovets, a lead specialist at the Fobos weather center said, RIA Novosti reports. "By 3 p.m., the thermometer showed only 12.6 degrees Celsius. This breaks the previous records from 1962 and 1976, when temperatures reached 14 and 14.7 degrees, respectively," the meteorologist specified. Tishkovets also noted that another weather record was set in the capital that day — for exceptionally low atmospheric pressure. By 3 p.m., barometers in Moscow registered just 728 millimeters of mercury. This was caused by the proximity of a storm system whose center is currently hovering over Kostroma.