a striking example of tauris, while in simferopol it was raining mixed with african sand, sevastopoltsev drove hail the size of cherries under the awnings. and this is footage from ukraine, where the disaster was in earnest: powerful downpours covered many cities, streams of water rushed through the streets, in kiev, more than twenty cars drowned right in the parking lot near the bus station. today , most of european russia will be at the mercy of the atlantic cyclone, outside the bad storm zone only the southern latitude of the volga region will remain. the area of this vortex contains quite warm air, therefore. only in the polar regions will the rain turn into snow, and the heaviest precipitation, on the order of the third-month norm, is expected in places in the north and center of the region. the first echelon of rain clouds reached moscow last night. around 15% of the monthly volume of moisture has already fallen in the capital; before lunch, showers and thunderstorms will acquire a local, short-term character, and then again sharply increase in total. at weather stations in the c