STOCKHOLM: Sweden on Wednesday (Jan 3) recorded its coldest January evening in 25 years, with a studying of minus 43.6 levels Celsius within the far north as a chilly snap hit the Nordics.
“To place that into perspective, that’s the lowest January temperature in Sweden since 1999,” Mattias Lind, meteorologist at Sweden’s nationwide climate company SMHI, advised AFP.
In January 1999, a temperature of minus 49 levels Celsius was recorded in Sweden, which tied the document set in 1951.
Lind mentioned that Wednesday’s measurement was made on the Kvikkjokk-Arrenjarka station in Sweden’s far north.
“It’s the lowest temperature that has been recorded on this particular spot since measurements started” in 1888, he mentioned.
A number of different stations recorded temperatures of under minus 40 levels Celsius in Sweden’s north.
Whereas residents of the area are used to seeing freezing temperatures, the latest chilly snap has compelled native bus operators to droop companies, and practice operator Vy mentioned Tuesday that it had cancelled all trains north of the town of Umea for a number of days.
Trains have been additionally disrupted in neighbouring Finland, the place a seasonal document of minus 38.7 Celsius was recorded Tuesday night within the northern Lapland area.
A number of cases of frozen or burst water pipes have been additionally reported, and Finnish broadcaster YLE mentioned round 300 folks within the metropolis of Tampere have been left with out working water on Tuesday.
The chilly entrance is anticipated to maneuver south over the following few days, with the Finnish capital Helsinki already seeing temperatures falling to minus 15 levels Celsius on Wednesday.
However regardless of colder temperatures being anticipated tomorrow, among the capital’s residents have been unfazed by the prospect.
“I am actually loving it. It is a mindset factor I assume,” Katja, a lady in Helsinki, advised AFP on Wednesday.
“It is all in regards to the clothes,” she mentioned, sporting a thick black winter jacket with the hood pulled over her head.
“Yeah, simply loads of garments and the angle – Like it is going to be chilly but it surely’s lovely,” her good friend Nita agreed as snow fell.
The intense chilly can also be anticipated to hit Norway in direction of the tip of the week, with temperatures in Oslo probably falling to minus 27 levels Celsius this weekend, in response to the nationwide climate service.
Heavy snowfall has already impacted the south of the nation with faculty closures and cancelled flights.
