Oslo - North Norway shivered through the coldest day this century yesterday with temperatures plunging to -51.2 Celsius. People in the northern county of Finnmark, high above the Arctic Circle, were advised to stay inside, but to stay moving if obliged to go out.
Temperatures measured in Karasjok overnight at 51.2 Celsius, were fractionally short of the all-time -51.4 C record in 1886. "This is the coldest day since then," meteorologist Haakon Melhuus said, saying that temperatures were likely to creep higher in coming days.