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Norway numbed: Mercury drops to -37 degrees

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Norway numbed: Mercury drops to -37 degrees
Photo: Håkon Mosvold Larsen/Scanpix (File)

Temperatures plunged to a perishing -37 degrees Celsius on Tuesday to give Telemark county in southern Norway its coldest day in more than three decades.

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Tore Larsen, who lives in a cottage on the shores of Møsvatn lake, decided to rethink his plans for the day after taking a look at his thermometer.

“Right now it’s -37 degrees here. I was actually supposed to travel to West Telemark today to install a satellite dish but I’ve put that off for now,” he said.

Meteorologists said the temperature was the lowest recorded in the country on Tuesday, as well as being the lowest in memory in the Telemark area. However, since it was recorded by an individual home owner it is not destined to enter the record books.

“We recorded -31.8 degrees at Møsstrond in Telemark in 1980. We haven’t had any colder measurements at our weather stations since then, so this is probably a new record cold level for Telemark,” Øyvind Johnsen from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute told national broadcaster NRK.

The cold snap stems from a high pressure belt over Finland and Russia, which may be set to bring even colder weather over the coming days.

“It’s likely that conditions will remain much the same overnight so it could get a bit colder. That’s also how it looks for the rest of the week,” said Johnsen.

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