The towns hit by partial outages have a combined population of around 90,000, not all of whom are confirmed to have lost power. Meteorologists expect the storm system to move north and weaken over the weekend.
A winter thunderstorm caused partial blackouts in at least 12 towns in Russia’s Ural region on 6 November, the regional branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry said. The outages were concentrated mostly in southeastern Sverdlovsk, The Moscow Times said.
The towns have a combined population of around 90,000. That figure is not a confirmed count of people who lost electricity.
The Moscow Times said videos and photos circulating on social media showed winds tearing roofs from buildings and sending debris through the air in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk’s capital. News outlet Ostorozhno Novosti said the city’s main railway station was damaged.
The Moscow Times also said one person was reportedly killed in a highway crash attributed to icy roads. Officials had not immediately confirmed the death.
Meteorologists said a low-pressure system pushed a cold front through the Ural Mountains, bringing temperatures below freezing and turning rain into snow. They expected the system to move north along the mountains on Friday, bringing blizzards to northern Sverdlovsk and leaving freezing temperatures and icy roads before weakening over the weekend.
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