The director general of the National Meteorological Office, Elena Mateescu, said that from Sunday evening, the meteorological phenomena registered during this period “will decrease”, but the weather remains wintry with low temperatures.

“The code red warning came into effect from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. It covers the counties of Konstanz, Tulcea, Brail and Galati. We expect blizzard conditions, sub-zero visibility and, most importantly, wind speeds of 60 to 110 km/h to continue in these areas. At the same time, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., it remains in force for the southeastern region, and I mean here, in particular, the south of Moldova, Dobrudja, the eastern part of Muntenia, as well as the southern Carpathians and Kryvina, warning orange code, because the blizzard phenomenon continues in these areas as well. Gusts of wind will be very strong, 85-100 km, in the mountains more than 100 km, especially in the area of ​​the Kurbur Carpathians, which will lead to the breaking of the snow layer and a special blizzard phenomenon. . In the rest of the country, except for the west and north-west, there is a yellow weather code. We are also talking about blizzards, we are talking about gusts up to 65-70 km/h, and, very importantly, from this evening the phenomenon will decrease, but the appearance remains wintry. We are talking about a yellow weather warning code for Moldova, Dobrudja, Southern Carpathians and Kurbure, as well as southern Muntenia and Oltenia. And here in the future there will be interesting gusts that will make the appearance wintery,” said Elena Mateescu on Sunday during the Winter team.

The ANM director said that the maximum temperatures will be very low in the coming period.

“The temperature regime with very low maximum values ​​will be interesting. Highs of minus 5 to a maximum of 2-3C but very low minimums and tomorrow (Monday not) we expect to see a very big improvement but the pole phenomenon will cause problems. From Tuesday, we again expect precipitation to be interesting throughout the country, especially in the mountains and foothills, snow, mixed precipitation is possible in the rest of the country,” said Elena Mateescu.

The ANM director also estimated that the blizzard will reduce in intensity after 8pm on Sunday, but the temperature will remain very low till Wednesday morning, with minus 6 to minus 7 degrees in the capital and minus 10 degrees Celsius in the capital. depression (photo source Dreamstime)