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Northern Europe Locked In Deep Freeze

Northern Europe has been enduring continued, continent-scale cold since the start of the year.

Across Scandinavia, the Baltics, and into Belarus, this year has delivered weeks of uninterrupted subzero weather. Daytime thaws have been rare. Nights have been relentlessly cold.

In Estonia, air temperatures have remained below 0C (32F) for 45 consecutive days across large areas — a level of continuous cold not seen there in decades.

Norway tells the same story.

In Oslo, temperatures have held below freezing for 32 straight days now. That makes it the third-longest subzero streak of the 21st century, behind only the 40-day run of Nov–Dec 2010 and the 33-day stretch of Dec 2009–Jan 2010.

At Røros Airport, themometers plunged to -33.8C (-28.8F) on Sunday, which marked the 20th day below -30C (-22F) so far this year. Records at Røros date back to 1876, and by Feb 15 only one year —1942— has recorded more such extreme cold days (with 22).