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20.01.2021

Overview of hydrological situation of January 20, 2021

In the past period (January 16-19), frosty weather contributed to the establishment of freeze-up and an increase in ice thickness on the country's water bodies. 
As of January 20, on the rivers of the basins of the Western Dvina, Dnieper, Berezina, Sozh, Pripyat, most of the rivers of the basins of the Neman and Viliya, freeze-up with a thickness of 5-21 cm is observed, in some places there are polynyas in the ice cover. 
On the reservoirs Vileyskoye, Chigirinskoye, Zaslavskoye, Soligorskoye, Krasnaya Sloboda, lakes Lukomskoye, Drivyaty, Naroch and Chervonoye, a continuous ice cover is noted, its thickness has increased and ranges from 14 cm to 24 cm. 
On the rivers of the country, almost everywhere there is an increase in water levels with an intensity of 1-29 cm per day. 
In the coming days, the projected increase in air temperature will cause melting of the ice cover and the appearance of water on the ice on the country's water bodies. In the level regime of rivers, an increase in water levels will be observed.


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