MOSCOW, February 1 (RIA Novosti) - Last month was the mildest January Moscow has ever had since formal weather observations began here 130 years ago, the city's chief meteorologist said Thursday.
Alexei Lyakhov said the month's average temperature was just minus 1.6 degrees Celsius, 7.6 degrees above the norm.
"That beat the 1989 record, when the average temperature in January surpassed the norm by 7.1 degrees," he said.
Moscow's precipitation levels reached 69.8 millimeters in January, 27.8 millimeters higher than the norm, said Lyakhov.
