RUSSIAN WINTERS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23756, 30 September 1942, Page 3

RUSSIAN WINTERS

LITTLE SNOW LIKELY AT STALINGRAD (8.0. W.) RUGBY. Sept. 28. Now that the prospect of winter once mbre casts its shadow over the German offensive in Russia, estimates are being made in London of the degree to which military operations are likely to be affected on various parts of the front. It is pointed out that the front covers an area which shows differences in climate as great as those between Britain and Algeria. The Stalingrad area is normally very dry, especiall; in the autumn. The snowfall being usually slight operations might continue on the lower Don and Volga throughout the winter, except for the intense cold. In the Caucasus mountains snow is likely to prevent operations in the passes from about the third week in October, but along the coasts of the Black Sea and the Caspian at no time is the weather alone likely to be an obstacle. In central areas, about Moscow, operations are expected to be seriously hampered by heavy snows and hard frosts about the end of November. Last year, which was one of the severest winters ever known, severe weather began about a month earlier than usual. In the Leningrad region, the autumn is usually wet enough to affect operations from mid-September, and heavy snow and low temperatures prevail from about early November.