Moscow Melts in Record Warm Spell

Moscow is enjoying the warmest January in recorded history, and the weather is expected to continue to look more like April for the next few days as balmy Atlantic winds sweep across European Russia and keep temperatures comfortably above freezing.

“These have been the warmest first 10 days of January since the beginning of weather monitoring in the country in 1879,” Tatyana Pozdnyakova of the Moscow weather bureau said Wednesday.