The snow cover depth in Vitebsk continues to break records

February 22, Vitebsk / Sergei Kochetov - BELTA /. The snow cover depth in Vitebsk continues to break records: this morning the record set 70 years ago was exceeded, the BELTA correspondent was informed by the Vitebsk Regional Center for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring. The new record for February 22 in Vitebsk is now 65 cm. This is 9 cm more than the previous record set on February 22, 1940. This year, in less than a full February, the regional center has already received 2.5 monthly norms of precipitation. Snowfalls of the same intensity (2-2.5 monthly norms) affected the eastern part of the region, while in the rest of the territory, the amount of precipitation for the incomplete February was 1-1.5 monthly norms. Precipitation is still forecast until the end of the month, and meteorologists do not rule out the possibility that the current winter will break more than one record for the amount of snow. The absolute record for snow cover depth in Vitebsk - 69 cm - was observed in early March 2004. The snowiest February in terms of precipitation over the years of meteorological observations was February 2004, when the amount of precipitation in Vitebsk for the month was 90 mm. -0-