{"id":304,"date":"2018-02-05T12:46:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T11:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=304"},"modified":"2018-02-05T12:47:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T11:47:34","slug":"heaviest-snowfall-on-record-blankets-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"Heaviest snowfall on record blankets Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Moscow has seen its heaviest snowfall in a day since records began, with more than 2,000 trees brought down and air travel disrupted, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>More than half the monthly average snow &#8211; 38cm (15 inches) &#8211; fell on Saturday, beating the previous record from 1957.<\/p>\n<p>A falling tree and collapsing power line killed one person and five others were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Snowfall is expected to ease off on Sunday night but the temperature is expected to drop.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of flights have been delayed at the Russian capital&#8217;s airports.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the disruption, many people on social media just seem happy to see a &#8220;real Russian winter&#8221; again after the unseasonal thaws of previous years, and have been sharing snowscape pictures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"social-embed\">\n<div class=\"social-embed-post social-embed-instagram\">\n<div role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Instagram post by dpborzov95\">Source\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-42939644<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow has seen its heaviest snowfall in a day since records began, with more than 2,000 trees brought down and air travel disrupted, officials say. More than half the monthly average snow &#8211; 38cm (15 inches) &#8211; fell on Saturday, beating the previous record from 1957. A falling tree and collapsing power line killed one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}