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Russia’s capital Moscow has seen the largest snowfall in more than 200 years this month, Moscow State University meteorologists said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Images from the city of around 13 million people showed residents struggling to make their way through heavy piles of snow on the streets in its central district.<\/p>\n
Commuter trains in the Moscow area were delayed and cars were stuck in long traffic jams on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
“January was a cold and unusually snowy month in Moscow,” the university said on social media.<\/p>\n
“By 29 January, the Moscow State University Meteorological Observatory had recorded almost 92 mm of precipitation, which is already the highest value in the last 203 years,” it added.<\/p>\n
Snow piles on the ground reached as high as 60 centimetres in some parts of the capital on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Snow is mostly air, meaning the level of settled snow far surpasses scientific measurements of precipitation, which measures the amount of water that has fallen.<\/p>\n
The record snowfall was “caused by deep and extensive cyclones with sharp atmospheric fronts passing over the Moscow region,” the observatory said.<\/p>\n
“There was much more (snow) when I was a kid, but now we practically don’t have any snow at all, there used to be much more,” Pavel, a 35-year-old bartender and Moscow resident, told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Russia’s far east Kamchatka region declared an emergency situation due to a massive snowstorm that left its major city partially paralysed.<\/p>\n
Images, widely circulated online, showed huge snow piles reaching up to the second storey of buildings and people digging their way through roads as snow blanketed cars on either side.<\/p>\n
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