Downpour with two monthly precipitation rates flooded Kerch

"From the norm [indicators of precipitation] are knocked out. In Kerch, 82 mm fell, which is almost two monthly norms. Belogorsk - 88 mm, this is also almost two monthly rates. Kerch Strait - 73 mm - 1.5 monthly norms. Cape, on the Sea of Azov the meteorological station is 43 mm, or a little more than the monthly norm", - TASS quotes the words of the head of the Crimean hydrometeorological center Tatyana Lyubetskaya.

At present, the center of Kerch is de-energized after the flooding of transformer substations; 236 houses and a hospital are also flooded. According to Interfax, the evacuation of residents of all flooded private and apartment buildings has begun.

Head of Crimea Sergey Aksenov arrived in Kerch. He moves around the city in a boat with a group of operators. Three unknown persons were stubbornly following his boat.

It is clarified that in the central part of Crimea the rains were not so strong. In Simferopol, for example, 28 mm fell out - this is 80% of the monthly norm.

In the village of Priozernoye, Leninsky District, 18 households were flooded. Rescuers evacuated 40 people, including children.

As the FAN told the head of the Department of Water Supply, Wastewater Disposal and Sanitary Engineering of the Academy of Construction and Architecture of the KFU named after VI Vernadsky, Professor Ilya Nikolenko, showers will have a positive effect on inflows into natural runoff reservoirs.

“The obtained water reserves, even in the absence of new tributaries, by the end of the year allow providing Simferopol with water while maintaining the existing water use regime for six months, for Yalta - nine months, and for Sevastopol - more than a year”, - Nikolenko said.

He drew attention to the high unevenness of inflows into the reservoirs over this period: the maximum inflows into the Zagorskoye and Schastlivskoye reservoirs last week were replaced by the maximum inflows into the Partizanskoye, which on June 15 amounted to more than one million cubic meters.

Let us remind you that the problems with water in Crimea began after Ukraine closed the peninsula's access to the North Crimean Canal. Previously, up to 85% of the drinking water on the peninsula was supplied through it. The authorities have allocated 50 billion rubles.

The head of the Kerch Hydrometeorological Bureau, Lyubov Krivosheeva, noted that such showers do not happen in Kerch often - about once every 20 years. “This is due to the exit of the Southern Cyclone from the Black Sea. The center of the cyclone was just above Kerch, so that much precipitation fell - 72 mm, ”she said in an interview with NEWS.ru.