Schools closed in Bucharest on Monday and Tuesday due to the cold warning, snowfalls. Minus 15C by day and minus 20C at night

Bucharest mayoress Gabriela Firea has announced on Sunday after the winter command meeting that schools in the Capital will be closed on Monday and Tuesday due to the severe cold alert announced.

“We decided, together with the ANM director, with the Capital prefect and the school inspector, to close down schools in Bucharest on Monday and Tuesday. The decision might be extended. It will be strong wind, freezing cold and temporary abundant snowfalls,” Firea said.

The mayoress told potential contesters of this decision that she would rather be cautious than to count victims.

“I prefer to always come with prevention actions. I prefer they say we were a little bit more alerted than counting victims,” she added.

In his turn, the Bucharest school inspector Florin Lixandru said that, considering the code orange and code yellow alerts, the inspectorate decided to suspend classes in the Capital in all pre-school, elementary and high school units, as well as in universities, “at least in the public ones, as the decision in the private schools is up to the management,” the inspector explained.

The National Meteorology Administration warns that temperatures will climb down up to minus 15C during the day and to minus 20C at night in the upcoming days, with a code yellow alert for freeze to be in force on Monday until Tuesday afternoon.

Schooll classes will be also suspended in Dolj and Olt counties.

Temperatures will be extremely low and the cold wave will persist until March 1, with temperatures going down to minus 15C, minus 16C at nights, in Bucharest minus 18C, minus 20C expected, and minus 8-minus 10C during the day.

Meteorologists also informed that it will start snowing as of Sunday night to Monday, with a 30-centimeter snowpack to laid down.

Snowstorm will also be present in Bucharest, starting Monday at 10 a.m. until Tuesday 14:00. The wind will blow with 60-65kmph.

More precisely, a code yellow alert for snowfalls will be valid in southern Banat, in Oltenia, Muntenia, Dobruja and southern Moldavia as of Monday at 4:00 until Tuesday, 20:00.

Monday, during 7:00 and 23:00, a code orange warning for heavy snowfalls and blizzard comes into forces in Mehedinti, Dolj, Olt and Teleorman counties, with the snowpack ranging from 30 to 40cm. A code orange for bad weather is valid in Bucharest, Giurgiu, Ilfov, Calarasi, Ialomita, Braila, Buzau, Constanta and Tulcea from Monday, 10:00hr through Tuesday, at 14:00hr.