Tomsk news June, 2023

Due to wildfires in Canada, New York was covered in smog.

It's cloudy here, but it only seems so. In fact, there is also a slight smog and a faint smell of smoke in the air.

Tomsk is also an apocalypse: 90°F. And this is in early June! And even after the Bird-cherry blossoms. You probably don't know, but there are several superstitions related to the weather. They probably vary depending on the locality/region. But after the Bird- cherry blossoms in Tomsk it gets colder. The cherry blossoms have faded, but instead of cold , the region got a heat wave. Probably, because of global warming, national signs no longer work.

The fires did not bypass Tomsk.

The press service of the city administration reports that the number of forest fires in the Tomsk region has increased to 41. 525 people and 66 pieces of equipment are involved in extinguishing.

An AN-26 "Cyclone" sounding plane arrived from Irkutsk to create artificial precipitation. Rain is caused by silver iodide. When the pilot reaches the required height, he fires the substance to condense moisture.

The press service reports that it was possible to cause 9 artificial rains.

Not only the forest is burning.

On June 9, in Ufa (Bashkiria), fuel and lubricants caught on fire in one of the warehouse buildings (fuel and lubricants warehouse) on the tracks adjacent to the Ufa railway station. The Administration of Russian Railways reports that the fire did not affect the movement of trains.

…Well, even if it would have affected.

Moscow's Ria Novosti reports on the development of an additional air corridor for civilian aircraft, which will reduce the flight time to the south.

The southern direction means such cities as Astrakhan, Vladikavkaz, Volgograd, Makhachkala, Sochi, Stavropol. While airports in the cities of Anapa, Lipetsk, Simferopol, Gelendzhik, Voronezh, Elista, Rostov-on-Don, Kursk, Krasnodar, Belgorod and Bryansk closed “temporarily” - from February 24, 2022.

The state takes care of its citizens so that they can spend their vacations efficiently.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, joked in her Telegram channel about a bear walking through the streets of Washington DC. She called this bear a Russian spy who “tried to interfere in the elections"

And in what place to laugh?

https://lenta.ru/news/2023/06/09/mishka/?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop

https://www.riatomsk.ru/article/20230609/an-26-vizval-9-dozhdej-v-tomskoj-oblasti-no-lesov-gorit-boljshe/

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