Year 2007 has become the warmest in 150 years of hydro-meteorological survey in Russia, said Roman Vilfand, chief of the country’s Hydro-Meteorological Center.
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Russia Had the Warmest of 150 Years
Year 2007 has become the warmest in 150 years of hydro-meteorological survey in Russia, said Roman Vilfand, chief of the country’s Hydro-Meteorological Center.
“For Russia, one may say it with the 99-percent certainty, it will be the warmest year in nearly 150 years of instrumental observation,” Vilfand announced Thursday during the news conference dedicated to hydro-meteorological results.
According to Vilfand, 2007 will be one of five, or perhaps, one of three warmest years in the world history. “It shows the climate warming obviously continuous,” Vilfand pointed out.
Russia had quite a lot of so-called hazardous weather conditions past year. The storm in the Kerch Strait that happened early November caused the greatest damage, the chief meteorologist said, specifying that the overall losses blamed on the dangerous weather were not so hefty as in 2006.
January of 2007 was very warm, Vilfand went on, but the temperature sank to -250C in February.
Vilfand also emphasized that the fact that Alexander Bedritsky, who heads the Federal Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring Service (Rosgidromet) was reelected as the chief of World Meteorological Organization manifests acknowledgement of Russia’s achievements in forecasting the weather and hazardous events related to it.
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