In most areas of Belarus, it will get colder on the weekend

January 13, Minsk / Tatyana Lobas - BELTA /. After a thaw period, Belarus will get colder again, Olga Fedotova, chief meteorologist of the Republican Hydrometeorological Center, told a BELTA correspondent. In the coming 24 hours, January 14, the country will be under the influence of an area of high atmospheric pressure. Only in the afternoon in the southwest will the influence of an atmospheric front be felt, so on the night of Old New Year's Eve, light snow is predicted in some areas, mainly in the east; in the afternoon, wet snow and ice phenomena are expected in the Brest and Grodno regions. In the night and morning hours, fog is possible in some places, and icy conditions will persist on the roads. Light to moderate winds of variable direction are expected. It will freeze at night to minus 1-7 degrees Celsius, and in the northwestern regions with clearings, it will be down to minus 10 degrees Celsius. In the daytime, zero to minus 5 degrees Celsius is predicted, and only in the southwest of the Brest region will there still be 2 degrees Celsius above zero. In the coming weekend, with the influx of air masses from Scandinavian countries, frosty weather will prevail. On Saturday, snow will fall mainly in the southwestern half of the country; in the Brest region, wet snow and rain, fog and ice phenomena are expected, and icy conditions will persist on the roads. The air temperature at night will drop to minus 5-12 degrees Celsius, and in the northeast with clearings - to minus 15-18 degrees Celsius. In the daytime, it is predicted to be from minus 4 to minus 11 degrees Celsius over most of the country. Only in the extreme southwestern regions will it fluctuate from minus 2 to plus 2 degrees Celsius during the day. On the night of January 16 in the southwest of Belarus, and in the afternoon in the northwestern part of the country, precipitation is expected mainly in the form of wet snow. Fog will thicken in places, and icy conditions will persist on the roads. The air temperature on Sunday night will be minus 7-14 degrees Celsius, and in the northeastern regions, the air may cool down to minus 17-20 degrees Celsius. At the same time, in the extreme southwest, from zero to 6 degrees Celsius below zero is predicted. In the daytime, the air temperature will fluctuate from minus 4 to minus 11 degrees Celsius. In the western part of Belarus, it will be from minus 2 degrees Celsius to plus 3 degrees Celsius. At the beginning of next week, Atlantic cyclones will again open the way for warm air coming from Western Europe. On January 17, the air temperature during the daytime hours will fluctuate from 2 degrees Celsius below zero in the east to 4 degrees Celsius above zero in the west of the country. Such weather, quite warm for January, will persist in the first half of next week, emphasized Olga Fedotova.-0-