How is the climate in Yekaterinburg this winter? cold or warm

Ekaterinburg has a continental climate with low humidity and large temperature differences between day and night. The average annual temperature is +1,8°С, and the average annual precipitation is 463 мм. The average temperature in January is minus 16?

C (the lowest recorded temperature is -54.6°C), and the average temperature in July is + 18? C (the highest recorded temperature is +38,8°C)

. Although the Ural Mountains are not very high, they block the flow of air from western Russia, leaving the central Ural completely open to the intrusion of cold air from the Arctic and the cold continental climate from the West Siberian Plain, while the cold air from the southern and Central Asian deserts is completely open. Hot air masses can also flow in unimpeded. Affected by this, Yekaterinburg's climate changes drastically, and the weather conditions are abnormal. Winters are dry and cold to melting ice and snow, and summers sometimes have high temperatures above +30°C, and sometimes temperatures drop sharply and are rainy.