Smoke from forest fires will last for four days in Moscow

The ecological situation in Moscow will not improve until Tuesday next week, when the wind changes direction, RIA Novosti reports, citing a specialist from the ‘Fobos’ weather center.

The concentration of carbon gases in the atmosphere exceeded the permissible level on Friday by 4 times and the amount of suspended particles by 3 times. The wind is currently south-easterly, at a speed of 2-7 m per second. On Tuesday the wind will start coming from the west and then the north-west.

A cold atmospheric front is coming from St. Petersburg, but it will not reach the capital until Tuesday. The temperature will fall to 30 degrees C.