This year the winter is too warm and wet. We have already had 3 floods in St. Petersburg this year. The first one was in October (2 meters above the river normal level), the second one was in December 15 (190 centimeters)
 
The last one was just few days ago. It was not a big surprise because the wind from the Baltic was extremely strong. The floods themselves are not rare guests in St. Petersburg. We have them almost every year mostly in November. The unusual thing is to have flood in January.
 Weather forecaster say that this flood was also caused by extremely high temperature +8.6 degrees Celsius, that happened for the first time within 125 years.
 The water level was over 2 meters. The rise of water is regarded as a flood when it reaches 160 centimeters above Neva normal level. So the flood that was here yesterday became the 302 one in the city’s history.
There are 3 official types of floods in St. Petersburg – dangerous (161-210 cm), very dangerous (211-299 cm) and disastrous (300 cm and higher). Statistics says that there have already been 302 floods in St. Petersburg, among them – 232 dangerous, 67 very dangerous and 3 disastrous (1777 – 321 cm, 1824 – 421 cm, 1924 – 380 cm).
 
As you can see 2 of the disastrous floods happened in 1842 and 1924.
There is a legend that when the city was founded it was predicted that once in a century it will be under water. Who knows… we’ll see it in 2024.