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Temps plummet to 40 below zero amid bitter Scandinavian cold spell
Finland and Sweden recorded their coldest temperatures of the winter Tuesday when thermometers plummeted as low as minus 40 Fahrenheit as a cold spell grips the Nordic region.
Cold and snow disrupted transportation throughout the region, including in Norway where a major highway in the south was closed due to the weather and ferry lines suspended operations. Swedish train operators said the cold snap caused substantial problems for rail traffic in the Arctic north.
Nikkaluokta, a small village inhabited by indigenous Sami people in northern Sweden, recorded a temperature of minus 42.8 degrees F early Tuesday, Swedish public broadcaster SVT reported.
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«It’s the coldest temperature we have had so far this winter, and it will continue to be quite cold weather in the north,» SVT meteorologist Nils Holmqvist said.
The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute reported temperatures of minus 22 F in several locations in northern Sweden, and issued a warning for snow and wind for central and southern Sweden. Its second-highest warning applies from midnight into Wednesday.
Snow piles up on a road in Kristiansand, Norway, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. (Tor Erik Schrøder/NTB Scanpix via AP)
In neighboring Finland, this winter’s cold record was recorded in the northwestern town of Ylivieska where temperatures fell to minus 36 F early Tuesday, and forecasters said temperatures would be lower than minus 40 C in parts of the nation through the week.
Temperatures in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, were expected to hover around zero F.
In the southern Norway town of Arendal, officials said schools would be closed Wednesday because it wasn’t possible to clear the sidewalks in time for children to get to school.
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Several ferry companies throughout the region canceled crossings, including those from southern Norway to Denmark where a key bridge was closed to vehicles with light trailers because of strong winds, Danish officials said.
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Zelenskyy accuses Putin of trying to stall ceasefire talks, pushes Trump for tougher sanctions
As Russian and U.S. officials prepared to speak about the 30-day ceasefire proposal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of looking to prolong the war.
«Putin is afraid to tell President Trump directly that he wants to continue this war and keep killing Ukrainians,» Zelenskyy wrote in a post on X. «That’s why, in Moscow, they are surrounding the ceasefire idea with such preconditions that it either fails or gets dragged out for as long as possible.»
Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Sputnik/Alexei Danichev/Pool via REUTERS/Leah Millis/Alina Smutko)
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After Ukraine agreed to the U.S. ceasefire proposal earlier this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio put the onus on Russia and told reporters that the «ball is now in [Russia’s] court.»
«As we have always said, the only one stalling, the only one being unconstructive, is Russia. They need this war. Putin has stolen years of peace and continues this war day after day,» Zelenskyy added.
Now, Zelenskyy says tougher sanctions are necessary to push Putin towards making a deal and ending the bloody three-year war. While President Donald Trump told reporters he wanted peace, not sanctions, he acknowledged that the U.S. could make financial moves that are «very bad for Russia.»
«In a financial sense, yeah, we could do things, very bad for Russia. It would be devastating for Russia,» Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday while meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. «But I don’t want to do that because I want to see peace.»
U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as he meets NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz sitting next to him, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 13, 2025. (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)
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On Thursday, Putin said he agreed with the U.S. plan for a 30-day ceasefire in «principle,» but signaled that Russia would not be signing onto the agreement in its current form. Ukraine agreed to the plan following talks with U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia, as long as Russia commits to the plan.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Rostelecom, Russia’s largest telecommunications provider, president at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 7, 2023. (GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump said on Thursday that if Russia does not come to the table and agree to the ceasefire, «it’ll be a very disappointing moment for the world.» The president vowed throughout his campaign to end the Russia-Ukraine war, saying that if he had remained in office in 2020 the war, which began with Russia’s 2021 invasion of Ukraine, would not have started.
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