DUSHANBE, January 8, Asia-Plus  -- The cold weather has set in as northwestern arctic cyclone came to Tajikistan.

Jamila Baydulloyeva, chairwoman of the weather forecast center at the Hydrometeorology Agency said that temperatures are expected to drop to minus five-ten degrees Celsius these days. 

According to her, the cold weather is likely to stick till December 10 and then it will get warmer as the cyclone will go to northeast – Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.