Kamchatsky, Muharram 19, 1432 / Dec. 25, 2010, SPA -- A strong cyclone is raging over the southern districts of Kamchatka on Saturday. A storm warning was made. The school classes were cancelled. Flights on the local airlines were suspended. The Kamchatka residents were recommended to be careful in the streets, Itar-Tass reported. The southern Ust-Bolsheretsk district was the hardest hit of the cyclone overnight to Saturday, when the hurricane winds reached 46 meters per second. The gusts of wind reached 32 meters per second in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. No snow blizzards were reported on the peninsula. The storm is raging in the Northwest Pacific off the Kamchatka coast with the waves six meters high. The flight arrivals from the mainland are delayed over the bad weather. A Transaero flight from the Moscow Domodedovo airport is postponed for December 26. An Aeroflot flight is delayed from the Sheremetyevo airport to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The Kamchatka air traffic authorities have not decided finally whether flights will be made on the routes between the peninsula and Khabarovsk, Vladivostok. The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky airport, which the Kamchatka main air harbour, is opened, but the air traffic situation is complicated by high winds. The gusts of wind reach 28 meters per second, the airport flight controlling service reported. A high avalanche hazard is announced in the territorial highlands.
