2010-08-27
Deadly Russian Heat Wave Declared Over. By Alexei Anishchuck, Reuters, August 19, 2010. "Russian meteorologists said on Wednesday Moscow's deadly heat wave was ending after two months of searing weather which took a high human and economic toll... Rains of varied intensity were expected in almost all regions of European Russia, the Urals, Siberia and the country's Far East though to the weekend... Officials broke the silence over the effects of the heat and smoke on Aug. 9, when the head of Moscow's health department, Andrei Seltsovsky, said deaths had doubled to 700 per day and heat was the main cause... The heat wave and drought are also estimated to have destroyed a quarter of Russia's grain crop and could shave $14 billion off this year's gross domestic product."
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