Sweden recently experienced the coldest January night in the past 25 years with a temperature reading of -43.6°C in the far north, due to a cold snap in the Nordics, reports RTE.
“To put that into perspective, that is the lowest January temperature in Sweden since 1999,” Mattias Lind, meteorologist at Sweden’s national weather agency SMHI, said, reports RTE.
The previous record was set in 1999, when the temperature hit -49°C, which had tied the record set in 1951.
The current temperature was measured at the Kvikkjokk-Arrenjarka station in Sweden’s far north by Mr. Lind, reports RTE.
“It is the lowest temperature that has been recorded in this specific spot since measurements began” in 1888, he said, reports RTE.
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