Kola fjord along Murmansk freezes for sixth time in the last 100 years

F-f-f-freezing Barents - BarentsObserver

Frozen “ice-free” port and 100 days of sub-zero temperatures – the Barents Region is experiencing an unusual cold winter.

The normally ice-free Kola fjord along Murmansk is now covered with ice. This has only happened five times before in course of the last 100 years, last time during the extreme winter of 1998-1999.

The capital of Finnish Lapland, Rovaniemi, passed one hundred days of continuous sub-zero weather on Monday, YLE reports. The thermometer there fell below the freezing point on November 4th.

According to statistics, the city has now moved into the fifth longest period of sub-zero temperatures in the past 50 years, the Finnish Metrological Institute reports. The present cold snap has also brought this winter's record low in Lapland where -37.9 °C was recorded in the early hours of Monday.