Somebody’S Getting Fired

Russian soldiers were busy shoveling in Red Square after Moscow was hit with the heaviest mid-April snowfall in 100 years. Snow began falling Sunday night and was at least a foot deep in the capital Tuesday. The volume of precipitation is equivalent to what normally falls in a month - and by now that’s usually in the form of rain. The sudden snowstorm sent Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov looking for an alternate weather forecasting service, the daily Moscow Times reported. Luzhkov said he would sever ties with the federal weather forecasting service, which gave no warning of the snowstorm, and hire his own meteorologists, the newspaper said.