08.02.10
Russian Heat (Yet Again!)
As a follow-up to this past week’s posts on the heat wave in western Russia, here is a plot of the temperature anomaly for July 29th, Moscow’s hottest day on record.
Note that the average temperature for Moscow on this day was 10 to 12 °C (18 to 22 °F) higher than the climatological average temperature for July 29th.
Although temperatures have since cooled down a few degrees, Russia is still under a massive ridge. This ridge will continue to build through at least the end of this week, when temperatures in Moscow could reach 100 °F or greater (possibly breaking the new record yet again).