The State Hydrometeorological Service said the layer of snow in Moldova’s localities measures around 17 cm, but could be higher in parts. “There were intensifications of the wind and the snow was drifted so that the layer can be higher in parts. The pictures taken in Ștefan Vodă show the layer there could measure up to 40 cm,” the head of the Service’s Weather Forecasts Division Ghennady Roșca stated for IPN.

There will be snowfalls in Moldova today too, but they will be less intense. It will snow lightly the coming days. The wind will intensify to 20 m/s in parts.

The next few days, nighttime temperatures will drop to minus 10 degrees Celsius, while daytime temperatures will vary between 0 and +5 degrees Celsius.

The frostiest winter on record was that of 1963, when the thermometers showed minus 35.5 degrees Celsius. The coldest day of January 28 was in 1954, when minus 25.6 degrees Celsius were recorded in Tiraspol. The warmest day of January 28 was in 1983, when 13.9 degrees Celsius were registered also in Tiraspol.