Winter came to the Crimea and fell asleep with snow

The snow began to go on Thursday evening, by the morning of Friday the snow cover formed in the Republic of Crimea. According to data from the site of the Crimean hydrometeorological center, daytime temperatures fell to minus 3 degrees, night — to minus 8 degrees. The wind intensified to 20 m/with gusts up to 25 m/s, frosts are accompanied by a snowstorm. The head of the Crimean Hydrometeorological Center Tatyana Lyubetskaya informed TASS that the frost to persist for a few more days:

Crimean winter came. Freezing will last until the end of the week, but frosts will not drop below minus 10 degrees.

Due to frost and snow, storm warnings were announced on the peninsula on February 6-7. The Ministry of Emergencies warned of the high probability of emergencies associated with accidents at energy and housing and communal services facilities, transport communication violations, difficulty in traffic, especially in areas of mountain passes are possible. In the evening on Thursday, due to bad weather, the Crimean Ministry of Transport introduced the restriction of cars on long-distance roads.

On Thursday evening, bad weather provoked an increase in the number of accidents and an accident on power supply networks. The Krymenergo previously reported that about three thousand residents of Alushta are expected to restore power supply. In the afternoon, the first deputy minister of fuel and energy of the Republic of Crimea Vladimir Voronkin wrote that due to bad weather, more than 18.3 thousand people in Simferopol, Kerch, Feodosia, as well as in the Saksky, Lenin and Simferopol regions were left without light. The Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev also reported about the disconnections of electricity in the Fiolent area.

source: TASS