Such a forecast for 2020 is given by specialists of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia.
“The year will not be a record warm, but the second in the temperature range or the third. With a 99% probability, it will enter the five hottest years. Global studies show that each next five years will be a record, average temperatures will rise, "- quotes RIA News Scientific director of the department Roman Villefand.
The specialist clarified that this is a temperature measured in the surface layer of air at a distance of two meters from the surface of the earth. Earlier, the Hydrometeorological Center spoke about the warming, which will begin in May in the central regions of Russia.