OREANDA-NEWS  On Thursday, July 10, a new maximum temperature was set in Moscow, which broke the record of 29 years ago. This was told by the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia Roman Vilfand, writes TASS.

The air temperature in the capital exceeded plus 33.7 degrees, which is 0.3 degrees more than on the same day in 1996, the forecaster said. Vilfand added that the thermometers at the Baltschug weather station showed plus 35 degrees, but records are fixed according to the values of the VDNKh weather station.

"The temperature at VDNKH is lower because of the many high-rise buildings in the center. They "pump in" solar energy and immediately give it to the surface layer of air," explained the meteorologist.

Earlier, Evgeny Tishkovets, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, warned that temperature records on July 10 could be broken in four Russian cities at once.: Rostov-on-Don, Lugansk, Kaluga and Moscow. Indicators in Donetsk, Tula, Bryansk and Ryazan will be close to the maximum.