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Temperatures hit -42 in Norway cold snap

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Temperatures hit -42 in Norway cold snap
The Eira family, Sami reindeer herders from Karasjok - Photo: Finnmark 2007

The people of Karasjok at the northern tip of Norway woke up to temperatures of -42 degrees on Monday morning as the north of the country was hit by this winter's harshest weather yet.

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Rune Olsen, who owns the Esso petrol station in the village, told NRK that there was now a 70 degree difference between indoor and outdoor temperatures. 
 
"People think it's nice to sit at home around a fire in their wood stoves. They put pictures on facebook of the temperature outside and inside, and it is usually 70 degrees difference," he said.
 
A region of high pressure over northern Norway and Sweden has caused a sudden cold snap with record low temperatures for the time of year recorded in Karesuando, Sweden, 80km drive south from Karasjok across a strip of Finland. 
 
"It is also a seasonal record," Lars Unnerstad, a Swedish government meteorologist, told TT news agency 
 
Rafael Escobar Løvdahl, a government meteorologist based in Tromsø, Norway, said that the cold snap would end by the weekend. 
 
The high pressure will finally disappear on Friday. Then a low pressure and precipitation will come first to Nordland on Saturday and later to Tromsø." 

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