In the Moscow region this weekend it will be hot, like in September starting Friday and during the weekend hot weather close to record values is expected in the capital region, Lyudmila Prashina, a leading researcher at the Hydrometeorological Center, told Interfax. "Today and tomorrow it will be hot in Moscow - 15-17 degrees, which is close to the absolute maximum - in different years these days it was a little more than 18 degrees in the capital.