Record snowfall hit Moscow for the second day in a row on Sunday, wreaking havoc on transportation and resulting in one death.<\/p>\n
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Twitter Sunday that one person was killed and two injured after the storm caused a tree to fall, damaging power lines on<\/p>\n
Saturday.<\/p>\n
According to local meteorological authorities, accumulated snowfall reached 62 centimeters deep over the weekend — nearly equal to the the total amount of<\/p>\n
snowfall for the entire month of February in previous years.<\/p>\n
Days of snow triggered a sharp increase in traffic accidents and severely impacted urban transportation. According to official data, 19 accidents occurred in<\/p>\n
Saturday in Moscow, injuring more than 20 people.<\/p>\n
As of Sunday, local authorities had dispatched 15,000 snow removing vehicles and nearly 70,000 sanitation workers to clear the city’s 800,000 cubic meters of<\/p>\n
snow within 24 hours to avoid any more accidents.<\/p>\n
Traffic conditions worsened on Sunday, with some roads blocked because of snow clearing work while power outages caused some traffic lights to go out. The<\/p>\n
traffic index reached six on Sunday morning, much higher than most weekends when the index does not exceed one.<\/p>\n
More than 100 flights have been delayed and nearly 30 flights were canceled in major airports in Moscow due to the inclement weather.<\/p>\n
Russian meteorological authorities forecast the snowstorm will continue to affect Moscow over the next two days, with wind speeds reaching 20 meters per<\/p>\n
second and temperatures dipping below 10 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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