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February 13, 2012
Dalarna braces for record-low Siberian chill
Published: 5 Jan 10 08:44 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/24206/20100105/
Residents in Dalarna in central Sweden are set to face near-record cold temperatures in the coming days as another cold front sweeps into Sweden from Siberia.
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Chilly temperatures are expected to blanket large swathes of central and northern Sweden, while remaining somewhat less frigid in southern and western Sweden.
“Really cold air has moved in from the north,” SMHI meteorologist Per Holmberg told the TT news agency.
The agency expects the coldest temperatures in the country to be recorded in and around Särna.
“We expect very light winds and also very clear weather there. Primarily in the valleys is where it will get the coldest,” he said.
According to SMHI’s forecast, daytime temperatures in Särna aren’t expected to climb above 36 degrees below zero.
Icy cold temperatures are expected to remain in place for the next several days before slowly climbing again.
The lowest January temperature ever recorded in Sweden is minus 49 degrees Celsius, most recently in Karesuando, located on Sweden’s northern border with Finland.
The same temperature was also recorded in 1951 in Vuoggatjålme in the mountains of northwestern Sweden, about 30 kilometres from the Norwegian border.
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SMHI got is wrong again by 09:00 it was already sunbathing weather with the temperature a balmy -27.6!
Don't forget frozen nostril hair. Nothing like snap, crackle, pop with a normal intake of breath.
global warming is real - we just don't have enough of it, we need more CO2
I am just miserable coz I got sun burnt painting my roof the other day.
Fika til you pop, drink til you drop. Helan går!
The day of our land navigation test warmed up to a balmy -15F. People forgot to drink in the cold, suffered heat exhaustion, then after they collapsed went straight into hypothermia. The medics were going nuts.
The worst part, of course, was dealing with latrines.
It's interesting that the current Earth (last half million years) is the coldest it's been in 300 million years, but the greenie nutjobs want it to stay that way instead of warming back up to normal.