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Freezing Finland hits Europe’s winter record low temperature
Associated Press ^ | January 27, 2019

Posted on 01/27/2019 3:46:36 PM PST by Olog-hai

Winters in Finland are often frigid, but meteorologists say the Nordic nation’s Lapland region has produced Europe’s coldest temperature this winter at –38.7°C (–37.7°F).

Meteorologist Ari-Juhani Punkka from the Finnish Meteorological Institute told Finnish public broadcaster YLE on Sunday that Finland and northeastern Europe were now hosting the continent’s coldest air masses, ones that “are Arctic in nature.” …

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TOPICS: Local News; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; finland; globalcooling; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; lapland; weather; winter
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; SkyDancer

I’m thinking it must have been 78/79 when me and some buddies went up to the family cabin near Duluth for some ice fishing. We were just kids, so didn’t pay no mind of the forecast. I’m not sure what our parents were thinking though, letting us go.

It got down to -44 degrees. No insulation in the cabin at that - time just planks on the walls and floor. Even sitting around the pot-belly stove rattling with a roaring fire it was cold 5 feet away. Wake up in the morning and the frost from our breathing covered everything!


21 posted on 01/27/2019 4:33:52 PM PST by 21twelve (!)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m half Finnish and have no desire to visit my mother country.


22 posted on 01/27/2019 4:35:56 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: 21twelve

Walking from the parking lot to church this morning I asked my husband why we live here.

January and February are tough; there’s not enough vitamin D on the shelves to get me through them.


23 posted on 01/27/2019 4:45:35 PM PST by NorthstarMom
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To: Olog-hai

Warmest winter ever™®© strikes again.


24 posted on 01/27/2019 4:47:00 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: 21twelve

During the intense cold of January 1977, the continental USA had cloud cover for the entire month.


25 posted on 01/27/2019 4:47:52 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Starstruck
A visiting colleague from Finland asked in our office, "Do you know why Finland's weather is so mild?"

We waited for the rest of the joke, when Erkki (pronounced Err-Key) finished with, "It's because of the warming effect of the Gulf Stream". :-/

He also advised us that many more Finns speak Swedish than Swedes speak Finnish. I'd already read that Finnish is linguistically linked to the Hungarian language.

26 posted on 01/27/2019 5:07:25 PM PST by Does so (Build the Cpl Ronil Singh Memorial Wall...A Legal Immigrant...)
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To: Olog-hai

Not much of a story there, they don’t even try to tell us when the record was set, and I have no doubt there where much colder winters back when no one had a thermometer stuck up, er, in the air or anywhere.


27 posted on 01/27/2019 5:17:03 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Does so

My Grandfather was a Finnish tailor for the Russian Tsar’s army. He came to the US just prior to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.


28 posted on 01/27/2019 5:18:45 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Olog-hai

Coldest of the year.


29 posted on 01/27/2019 6:07:50 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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I always thought it would have been cool to be born and grow up in Finland. I like cross-country skiing and shooting and all the stuff that I like to do.


30 posted on 01/27/2019 6:12:29 PM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed it wright.)
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To: Olog-hai

We need more jets in the air, cars on the roads and Liberals opening their mouths to help Global warming...


31 posted on 01/27/2019 6:14:40 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: Olog-hai

They hit that sweet spot where Celsius and Fahrenheit meet. Good work, Finland!


32 posted on 01/27/2019 6:17:12 PM PST by Defiant (I may be deplorable, but I'm not getting in that basket.)
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To: dfwgator

Cold here in Florida...rainy and it was about 60 today...


33 posted on 01/27/2019 6:49:54 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: KarlInOhio

“”Which is pretty convenient since the Arctic Circle goes through northern Finland””

A priceless comment - love it!


34 posted on 01/28/2019 10:16:01 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: MrEdd

I said ENGLAND!

CC


35 posted on 01/31/2019 12:07:04 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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