Russian heatwave 'worst in 1000 years'
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Pastor Dale Morgan
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Russian heatwave 'worst in 1000 years'
* From correspondents in Moscow
* From: AFP
* August 09, 2010 10:14PM
THE heatwave which has caused a sanitary and agricultural crisis in Russia is the most severe in the country's entire history, a top meteorological official says.
The head of weather forecaster Rosgidromet said that nothing similar had been observed in the millennium history of the Russian state, which dates back to the acceptance of Christianity by ancient Russia in the late 10th Century.
"From the moment of the foundation of our country, we can say, in the last period of 1000 years, no similar heatwave has been observed neither by ourselves nor by our ancestors," Alexander Frolov said.
"This is a completely unique phenomenon," he told a televised news conference.
"There are no observations of this in the archives."
Summer temperature records have tumbled throughout July and August with the worst smog in living memory from wildfires descending on Moscow in the last days.
Officials said that mortality in Moscow had doubled amid the heatwave.
Russian heatwave 'worst in 1000 years'
* From correspondents in Moscow
* From: AFP
* August 09, 2010 10:14PM
THE heatwave which has caused a sanitary and agricultural crisis in Russia is the most severe in the country's entire history, a top meteorological official says.
The head of weather forecaster Rosgidromet said that nothing similar had been observed in the millennium history of the Russian state, which dates back to the acceptance of Christianity by ancient Russia in the late 10th Century.
"From the moment of the foundation of our country, we can say, in the last period of 1000 years, no similar heatwave has been observed neither by ourselves nor by our ancestors," Alexander Frolov said.
"This is a completely unique phenomenon," he told a televised news conference.
"There are no observations of this in the archives."
Summer temperature records have tumbled throughout July and August with the worst smog in living memory from wildfires descending on Moscow in the last days.
Officials said that mortality in Moscow had doubled amid the heatwave.
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