North Has Coldest Day Since 1886

Northern Norway shivered through its coldest day this century, with temperatures plunging to a bone-chilling minus 60.2. People in the northern county of Finnmark high above the Arctic Circle were advised to stay inside, be well wrapped and keep moving if obliged to go out. Temperatures measured in Karasjok overnight were fractionally short of the all-time minus 60.5 record set in 1886. A television report showed a man throwing a cup of warm water into the air. It turned into a cloud of ice crystals without a drop reaching the ground.