Climate of Moscow

More extreme continental climates at the same latitude- such as parts of Eastern Canada or Siberia- have much colder winters than Moscow, suggesting that there is still significant moderation from the Atlantic Ocean[citation needed] despite the fact that Moscow is far from the sea.

Most of the records and averages are given for VVC weather station, located in the North-Eastern administrative okrug of Moscow.

The temperature from this station averages 0.5–1 °C lower than in the city center, and 0.5–2 °C higher than night minimums in the suburbs.

The last wet snow precipitation may be in the beginning of May, and it may restart at the end of September.

A few times per season, often in the May–September period during thunderstorms, wind speed may exceed 15–35 metres per second.

Near the day of the summer solstice (June 22), the sun does not fall below −12°, thus the nautical twilight occurs throughout this period.

Nevertheless, lighting of the navigational twilight is not enough for normal human activity, so the streets need artificial illumination, and it is believed that there are no so-called white nights in Moscow, although the sky remains dark blue, and not black, as, for example, in southern Russia.