Thursday Weather Forecast for Moscow

Russia is similar to Canada in latitude, so it hasn't been surprising to see numerous cold fronts over the past few weeks feature cold air, even sub-freezing at times, making their way to a few of the host cities.

Sochi has proven to be the warm southern spot I expected it to be. Sochi is at 43.4N, which is similar to Madison, Wis. Saint Petersburg, the most northern host site, is just shy of 60N latitude. This is the same as Alaska's Kenai Peninsula and the northern borders of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

With the opening game coming up this Thursday, it's time to take a look at more specific weather information in Moscow. Low pressure moves east over northern Russia this week, with a cold front shifting south of Moscow Wednesday morning. This will be followed by dry conditions with high pressure settling nearly overhead by Thursday night. The airmass aloft will be on the cool side, so I expect broken cloud cover during the day Thursday with a high near 65 degrees. Wind direction will be North to Northeast at 5-10 mph most of the day, although perhaps peaking in the 10-15 mph range during the afternoon hours. Overall a very pleasant evening for the locals.

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