Due to yesterday’s hard snow, at midday “Zvartnots” airport was not able to receive and depart the airplanes. After 3:00 p.m. “Snow Note” was announced, which means that the “Armenia International Airport” is not capable of providing take-off and landing of planes. We were informed from the airport that the index of the touching spot of the landing highway doesn’t correspond with the norm. The non-stop snow doesn’t allow cleaning the landing highway. It will be possible to realize flights only when the snow stops or lowers its level of precipitation. The inner-city roads of the republic also became hard to control because of the snow. We were informed from the “Arm Auto Road” that the sector of Berd-Tchambarak highway, Selimi mountain road connecting Yeghegnadzor with Martuni and Horom-Artik-Alagyaz highway are closed. All the other inner-city roads are open but it’s hard to drive. Certain sections of the highways are covered with ice.
We were informed from the “Meteorological and Prognosis Service of Armenia” that it doesn’t snow only in Tavoush, Lori and Syunik Marzes. The snow will stop at night but not for very long. The snow-cyclone that has covered Crete Island will soon move to Armenia and starting from January 24-25 it will snow in all regions of the country.
A. A.