According to Russian media outlets, strong smell of fumes spread throughout Moscow on Monday morning. The smell of smoke was felt even in the city center.
Natural fires in heartland of Moskovia in Moscow, in the so-called Mother Russia, have become frequent of because drought. 63 natural fires on a total area of 71 hectares, including 38 turfy areas and 25 forest areas, were recorded on July 25 in the Moscow region.
Heat and smog have increased the level of pollution in Moscow air. Even according to a low official data, on the average daily concentrations of the weighed particles exceeded 8 the permissible values.
Other reeks are added to the smell of fumes in Moscow, since not only peatbogs and forests are burning. Moscow stikgs Hell nowdays, there is smell of sulfur, and norms for the levels of hydrogen sulfide in the air are significantly exceeded. The media do not explain the reason. Excess of hydrogen sulfide by as much as 30 % has been registered in the Moscow district of Marino, for example.
The situation will worsen in the near future, ecologists say and advise Muscovites to limit their stay in the open. However, it is impossible to stay in apartments because of heat. There is a stalemate.
Moscow inhabitants report:
"My lungs hurt from the smoke. I walk constantly with a oxygen can, because it is the only way to alleviate the situation, a little. Fumes are terrible in Moscow southeast. Smoke is also present in the northeast. There is also smoke in the west of Moscow.
This heat is already unrealistic. And here is also smog. No way to escape, the smoke is everywhere. I'm staying on a 42-floor, I see the whole city. Absolutely everything is shrouded in mist. We are suffocating already. Today, fires are extinguished, and they will start again tomorrow, until we get rain showers.
The day of Monday, July 26, will be included into the 130-year history of meteorological observations as the hottest day of summer. According to Interfax agency citing Hydro-meteorological Office of Moscow and the Moscow area, the basic capital weather station recorded at 16:00 OCE the temperature of 37.2 degrees centigrade.
Until now, the hottest day was recorded even under earlier Bolshevik years: in July 1920, when the air was warmed up to 36,8 degrees in the capital. In 2010, the absolute summer temperature made a record in the history of weather observations.
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