The Swedish village of Naimakka on Monday, December 6, set a temperature record for the first time in 30 years, the thermometers showed minus 43.8 degrees there, writes The Local Sweden.
As the forecaster of the Swedish Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology (SMHI) Emma Harenstam clarified, at noon the values were recorded at minus 42.7 degrees. In the afternoon, the temperature dropped to almost 44 degrees below zero. Forecasters do not exclude that on Tuesday, December 7, it will continue to fall and break new records. On Wednesday, Naimakka, like the rest of Sweden, will get warmer.
Naimakka is one of the coldest places in Sweden in winter. The village is located right on the border, in the north of the country, and can only be reached through Finland. There are only two people living in the village. In northern Sweden, trains have been suspended for safety reasons.
The record for negative temperatures was set in Sweden on February 2, 1966, when the thermometers showed minus 52.6 degrees. In addition, one of the coldest was December 30, 1978 (minus 48.9 degrees). There have been no 40-degree frosts like December 2021 in the country for 30 years.
Earlier, the Russians were warned about abnormally “severe weather” in a number of regions. So, in the Murmansk region and Karelia it will be minus 17-22 degrees, and in the Vologda region – up to minus 29 degrees. In the Leningrad Region, the thermometer will drop to minus 14-19 degrees.
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