INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
reached 15.5 degrees Celsius, surpassing the historic average of 12.2 C by over three degrees
Temperatures climbed higher only in 1847 and 1792, making last month the warmest September since the reign of Tsar Nicholas I, who ruled
over the Russian Empire from 1796 to 1855.While early methods of measuring air temperatures may lack the precision of modern meteorological
techniques, MGU scientists emphasized that any potential overestimation of past temperatures is unlikely to exceed more than a few tenths of
a degree.At the same time, last month was the fifth-driest September in Moscow's recorded history, with the Russian capital seeing six times
warming 2.5 times faster than the rest of the world, saw scores of temperature records broken in Siberia and northern parts of the Far East
