Snowfalls in Central Russia to Subside by End of Week

Snowfalls in Central Russia will gradually subside, but the region will experience the peak of bad weather in the next 24 hours. The active cyclone causing heavy precipitation will weaken by the end of the work week.
Feb 22, 2026
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Meteorologists provide a detailed forecast for the final week of January, predicting a shift in weather patterns.
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Artem Bauman / 76.RU

Snowfalls in Central Russia will gradually subside, but the region will experience the peak of bad weather in the next 24 hours. As specialists from the Phobos center reported, the cause of heavy precipitation remains an active cyclone, whose influence will weaken only by the end of the work week.

«Atmospheric processes at the turn of January and February will continue to change, like pictures in a kaleidoscope. By Friday, the Scandinavian anticyclone will push the snow cyclone into Siberia, and the weather on the Russian Plain will begin to improve,» the Phobos center clarified on January 28.

According to the service Weather 76.RU, on Friday, January 30, it will be sunny and without precipitation in Yaroslavl. However, the air temperature will drop to −19 °C (−2.2 °F). And on the weekend, January 31 and February 1, it will even freeze to −25 °C (−13 °F).

Weather in Yaroslavl by day:

  • On the day of January 28, variable cloudiness, heavy snow, and fog are expected, −7…−9 °C (19.4…15.8 °F). The temperature at night −10…−12 °C (14…10.4 °F).

  • On January 29, variable cloudiness, light snow, and heavy fog are possible throughout the day. At night and during the day −10…−12 °C (14…10.4 °F), strong wind with gusts up to 13 meters per second is forecast.

  • On January 30, clear weather is expected. Temperature at night and during the day −14…−19 °C (6.8…-2.2 °F), wind north, moderate.

  • On January 31, clear weather is expected throughout the day against the background of high pressure. At night −21…−23 °C (-5.8…-9.4 °F), during the day −16…−18 °C (3.2…-0.4 °F).

  • On February 1, variable cloudiness, light snow, and heavy fog are expected. Temperature at night −22…−25 °C (-7.6…-13 °F), during the day −17…−19 °C (1.4…-2.2 °F), wind northeast, strong, with gusts up to 14 meters per second.

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