More than 20 Vitebsk residents suffered street injuries on April 2 due to bad weather

April 3, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The snowstorm that hit Vitebsk on April 2 led to a surge in street injuries in the city, a BELTA correspondent was told at the trauma center of the Vitebsk Emergency Hospital. Over the past day, 25 people sought medical help at the trauma center. There were also victims of car collisions. Several people with minor injuries sustained as a result of road traffic accidents were registered. A decade's worth of precipitation fell in Vitebsk on April 2 from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM (half a day), Lyudmila Borodenok, lead engineer-forecaster at the Vitebsk Regional Center for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, told a BELTA correspondent. The cause of the bad weather was a shifting cyclone, which led to snow, a snowstorm, and wind gusts of up to 17-21 meters per second. The snow cover depth formed in the region ranged from 3 cm in Sharkovshchina to 10 cm in Vitebsk. Unstable weather will persist in the region throughout the current week. In addition, another cyclone is expected in the coming days. The air temperature will be close to normal, around two degrees Celsius. Lyudmila Borodenok added that despite the harsh weather, according to meteorological calculations, spring arrived in the Vitebsk region on March 11. -0-