Remember back in October when the mayor of Moscow proudly announced that Russia had learned to control the weather and that no snow would fall in Moscow this winter?
Here’s how Time Magazine told the wintery tale:
Pigs still can’t fly, but this winter, the mayor of Moscow promises to keep it from snowing. For just a few million dollars, the mayor’s office will hire the Russian Air Force to spray a fine chemical mist over the clouds before they reach the capital, forcing them to dump their snow outside the city. Authorities say this will be a boon for Moscow, which is typically covered with a blanket of snow from November to March. Road crews won’t need to constantly clear the streets, and traffic — and quality of life — will undoubtedly improve.
As the BBC reports, that was then, this is now:
Thousands of snow-clearing machines have been working to dig the Russian capital Moscow out of a record-breaking fall of 63cm (nearly 25 inches).
After a weekend of heavy snow showers, the regional weather centre announced that the previous record of 62cm, set in 1966, had been broken.
…In all, about 15,000 snow-clearing machines were deployed in the city of about 10.5 million people, backed by 8,500 dump trucks and about 5,500 street-sweeping personnel.
Quick. Someone check to see if Al Gore has been in Moscow. This has all the signs of the Gore Effect.
Source: Time Magazine, BBC
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021