It's a Scorcher!

Record Summer High Temperatures in Moscow

LONDON, July 27, 2010 - Intourist UK www.intouristuk.com/- Russian Travel Specialist
reports record high temperatures in Moscow. The blazing temperatures in
Moscow last week soared still higher today, entering the record-books at
36 degrees C (=96.8 degrees F). Moscow was hotter today than Antalya,
Hurghada or Bangkok.

Even Moscow's legendarily grumpy traffic-cops have been allowed to come
to work in shorts and sandals - shirtsleeves and cut-off trousers and
breeches seem to be standard office-wear too. Restaurants reported running
out of ice as freezers failed to keep pace with demand. Younger people found
alternative ways to cool-off in a flashmob water-fight yesterday at the
pleasure-park which was formerly the USSR's "Exhibition Of Economic
Achievement". Pavement cafes report booming business, and supplies of cold
drinks - especially of Diet Coke - have been running out in many outlets and
shops.

Some parts of the city reported poor air-quality as smog from burning
peat-bogs outside the city was blown into the city centre.

No immediate let-up in the weather is forecast, and even flash rainstorms
on Sunday evening failed to cool the temperatures.

Meteorologists are predicting that this abnormally hot weather will
continue through to the end of July and into the first week of August. The
hot weather remains centred on the European part of Russia - at Siberia's
Lake Baikal, a popular summer vacation-spot, the mercury struggled to hit
20 degrees F.

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nikolayc at intourist.co.uk