Temperatures fell below minus 40 degrees Celsius in the Nordic region for a second day in a row on January 3, with the coldest January temperature recorded in Sweden in 25 years, Report informs referring to AP.
In Kvikkjokk-Årrenjarka in Swedish Lapland, the mercury dropped to minus 43.6 C, the coldest temperature in the country in January since 1999, Sweden’s TT news agency reported.
On Tuesday, Nikkaluokta, a village inhabited by indigenous Sami people in northern Sweden, recorded a temperature of minus 41.6 C. The village is in Lapland, which stretches from northern parts of Norway through Sweden and Finland to Russia.
Ida Dahlström of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute said northern Sweden had overnight temperatures of minus 25-35 C “and the cold seems to stay there for the rest of the week,” TT reported.
The coldest Swedish temperature in January - minus 49 C - was recorded on January 27, 1999, in the town of Karesuando near the Finnish border.
The weather - cold with snow and gale-force winds - disrupted transportation throughout the Nordic region, with several bridges closed and some train and ferry services suspended. Several schools in Scandinavia were closed.