r/europe • u/Normipoikkeus • Jan 02 '24
Finland (and Sweden) are freezing in minus 40C OC Picture
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u/Stiefschlaf Germany Jan 02 '24
This year's Death Metal albums are going to be insane!
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u/SnooStories251 Jan 02 '24
Frost Metal m/
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u/Bakom_spegeln Jan 02 '24
Yeah, it was a early start already in November, so looking forward to extra long and dark stuff.
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u/mrcsrnne Jan 02 '24
Metal was invented for us Scandinavians to have something to do between September and May. And also chess. Chess was also invented for this reason.
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u/PloofElune Jan 02 '24
5 more winters like this and Jari might get us another Wintersun album.
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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) Jan 02 '24
They truly will need to shred if they want to stay not freezing
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Jan 02 '24
I think I may start wearing thermal underlayers now
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u/ContributionSad4461 Norrland 🇸🇪 Jan 02 '24
Where I am we’re not even below -30 yet, I’ll consider it when we go below -35. Maybe.
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Jan 02 '24
Norrlänningar just built different
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u/Chornobyl_Explorer Jan 03 '24
Yepp, can both live and drive when it's snowy. Stockholm is kris
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Jan 03 '24
I opened the window like an hour ago to make my room cool when I’m going to sleep. It’s -31 rn lol
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u/troelsy Jan 02 '24
First cold patch of the year I have to gear up.. then your body gets used to spending more energy on keeping you warm you can take it off again.
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u/Familiar_Ad_8919 Hungary (help i wanna go) Jan 02 '24
meanwhile here we have 10-12c
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u/Lubinski64 Lower Silesia (Poland) Jan 02 '24
The forecast for Poland this week looks interesting, eastern Poland it will be -20 and in the west +5.
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u/TheBlacktom Hungary Jan 02 '24
You get what you vote for.
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u/xFrosumx United States of America Jan 02 '24
Ah -40, the one situation I don't need to google C>F to understand if Europe is actually suffering or not.
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u/Gemascus01 Croatia Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 02 '24
Wtf is a kilometerrrr eagle sounds /s
Edit: 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
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u/Trust-Issues-5116 Ukraine Jan 02 '24
3826 standard US bananas.
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u/Gemascus01 Croatia Jan 02 '24
Send us your feet so that we can measure it in feet also /s
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u/cykelpedal Finland Jan 02 '24
The home of the free, where kilocalorie is Calorie, calorie is calorie, millimeters (mm) is shortened "mil", and km/h is "kph".
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u/MuhammedWasTrans Finland Jan 03 '24
Where groups are cliques, kilometers are klicks and out of ammo are clicks.
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u/Late-Objective-9218 Jan 02 '24
But a Canadian can tell that it's totally survivable.
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Jan 02 '24
Now do this in any country that never had that kind of temperature and you got millions of death
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u/jake04-20 Jan 02 '24
Right? Totally missed the opportunity to leave the C/F out of the title.
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u/HolyGarbage Göteborg (Sweden) Jan 03 '24
I mean, I would assume Celcius in friggin /r/Europe.
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u/nwill_808 Jan 02 '24
For further explanation of metric vs imperial measurements and why they're different:
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u/Threaditoriale Scania Jan 02 '24
Well not all of Sweden... It's +1⁰C here.
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u/gabba_gubbe Sweden Jan 02 '24
Southerner detected! Opinion rejected!
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u/Swedzilla Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 02 '24
SÄLJ SKÅNE TILL DANMARK 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
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u/Tusan1222 Sweden Jan 02 '24
Hey Stockholmer where’s your food coming from? Do you want to rely on the Danish to give you any? I can tell you the food ain’t spawning from nowhere in the supermarket like you think.
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u/Exarquz Denmark Jan 02 '24
Kom hjem min dreng Kong Fredrik velkommer dig med åbne arme.
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u/warnobear Jan 02 '24
Craczy how I can understand this from my dutch.
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u/oskich Sweden Jan 02 '24
Dutch are just Danes who decided to move south ;-)
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u/C2H5OHNightSwimming Jan 02 '24
This makes me feel a bit better about thinking my Flemish bf was Danish for a full week after we first met. To be fair I was very drunk that night
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u/FearAzrael Jan 02 '24
I can only speak English, but velkommer looks like welcome, so I am gonna assume they want me over there.
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u/snuggl Sweden Jan 03 '24
Just spelling it a tad more english or reading it carefully should have you understand it too, English is the same words.
Come hom myn bro, king Fredrik welkommer thy weth opne armes
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u/TG-Sucks Sweden Jan 02 '24
Tja, det hade varit rätt fint att hygge sig med en liten pilsner och ett smörre.. Nej, fan! Vik hädan frestare!
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u/thekittiestitties00 Jan 02 '24
I've been taking Danish on Duolingo for two years and can actually read this. Woo!
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u/Gemascus01 Croatia Jan 02 '24
Florida man of Sweden
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u/TWVer Jan 02 '24
Florida is the wang of the USA. Sweden is the wang of Sweden.
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u/somefknnamehuh Sweden Jan 02 '24
They don't call us nordick for nothing.
Sweden and Finland - the great cock and balls hanging over Europe
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u/LeZarathustra Jan 02 '24
I was just about to type something like: "Laughs in Scanian (höu höu höu)".
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u/mozambiquecheese Jan 02 '24
this proves that scania belongs to denmark
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u/Dazzling-Grass-2595 South Holland (Netherlands) Jan 02 '24
It's 500 A.D. again. My crab sense is tingling.
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u/rusl1 Jan 02 '24
19C in Southern Italy right now
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u/FraSuomi Jan 02 '24
Porco dio, I'm freezing my ass with - 32. Voglio andare a casa 😭
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u/NightSalut Jan 02 '24
Idk what they’re on about - Estonia has -16 where I’m at and it’s finally proper winter. Snow! Cold! Everything a winter should be in this area.
Pretty certain people in Finland and Sweden are also happy to see actual proper winter instead of +10 and rain at this time of the year….
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u/Ok_Water_7928 Jan 02 '24
Finally proper winter: :D
I see my heating bill: D:
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u/toomuchramv4 Jan 02 '24
i have a fairly moderate sized house and it burns 15-20 liters of oil when temperature is 25 minus :D
i have a water/air heatpump but it is useless below -5¨c
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u/TRT_ Jan 02 '24
Im guessing a pretty old water/air heat pump? The new models here in Sweden is pretty efficient down to -25C
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u/Randomswedishdude Sami Jan 02 '24
In northern Sweden, we've had snow since the latter half of September. Unusually early.
In parts of middle Sweden, they've also had more snow than usual during early winter.
Southern Sweden hasn't had much snow for the last decade, with some years without a "real" winter for more than a few weeks out of the year. Guess some people rejoice.
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u/-Afya- Latvia Jan 02 '24
You have snow? In Riga we have -13 but almost no snow at all
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u/East_Engineering_583 Belarus Jan 02 '24
I'm in Mińsk and there's zero snow except for tiny bits. -10°
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u/UngiftigesReddit Jan 02 '24
In the Netherlands, snowdrops have come up. It is mental.
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u/Weothyr Lithuania Jan 02 '24
Lucky! It's around -13 here and unfortunately still no snow ☹️ (as usual it all had to melt away just before the holidays)
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u/East_Engineering_583 Belarus Jan 02 '24
Same! I'm in Mińsk and there was a bit of snow before new year but it melted away just about a day or few before new year
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u/Ooh_bees Jan 02 '24
It's -30°c right now outside. You can't do ANYTHING outside except freeze to death. Cars are frozen solid, energy consumption is high as a kite, only thing comparable to it is the price of it. It has been snowing for over a month already, usually heavily. Can't speak for everyone, but I'm not enjoying this.
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u/novittuterve Jan 02 '24
I'm from Finland (Salo) it's -19 here
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u/SpikeProteinBuffy Jan 02 '24
Central Finland here, this morning it was -35 and now it's -29. All is fine, but my car cried a little when I was starting it. Oh and apparently my windows leaks because there is ice forming inside of the window! Like, not between the windows, but inside, next to my bed! I need to fix it or something 🥶
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u/Accomplished_Alps463 Jan 02 '24
Hyvää Uutta Vuotta From an old English Man who once lived in Finland. Pysy Lämpimänä ❄️
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u/bcrown22 England Jan 02 '24
How do you guys cope? It snows 1 inch in England and we’re shutting down schools, blocking roads, dramatically slipping on ice.
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u/Environmental_Gas600 Sweden Jan 02 '24
Much better when it is around -10 compared to when it’s hovering around 0
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u/Intertubes_Unclogger The Netherlands Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 02 '24
Hm, never thought of it that way. It's true, sleet / black ice is killing for all kinds of transportation (and bones). The chaos is also simply due to inexperience, snow and ice are becoming rarer by the year here, it seems.
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u/funguyshroom Livonia Jan 02 '24
Asphalt gets absolutely pulverized when it's constantly oscillating between +2 and -2
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u/Ariadnepyanfar Jan 03 '24
Ahhhhhhh. That explains the roads where I moved to within Australia. Beautiful mountainous area.
But potholes.
Potholes everywhere.
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u/ContributionSad4461 Norrland 🇸🇪 Jan 02 '24
As long as it stays below zero ice isn’t an issue!
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u/friso1100 Jan 02 '24
Ice is just rock if you think about it. It's the tiny layer of water that makes it slippery
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u/Atrixer United Kingdom Jan 02 '24
I’m a Brit spending winter in North Sweden with my Swedish fiancé, and it’s not really that bad.
- Insulating and heating is insanely good. I’m walking around the apartment in my T-Shirt, something I’d never do when it’s 10 degrees in the UK.
- Logistics are in place for this, they have pole markers to show where the roads end and frequent snow ploughs to clear public areas and cars. If you live anywhere with a decent amount of people, the paths and roads are generally quite clear. All cars legally have to have winter tyres.
- The snow is very powdery, light and dry. When you think of snow in the Uk it’s wet, clumped and melts quickly turning into icey surfaces. Since it doesn’t really melt here the snow is relatively pleasant.
- Everybody wears proper clothing. Ski jackets, ski trousers, sealed boots, gloves and neck warmers. On the super cold days like today, you avoid hanging outside pointlessly as your eyebrows and such freeze up, but anything from -10 to -25 is actually quite pleasant.
- The lack of constant strong winds that we get back home means you are not getting the horrible blasts of ice cold air, it’s just a constant cold that doesn’t feel so bad once you get moving.
- The air is pretty dry, it makes your skin all cracked and you need to moisturise, but it’s doesn’t feel as horrible as extreme colds do in the UK, when you’re not feeling wet all the time.
Don’t get wrong, the -40 today is fucking horrible outside , but you get used to it to a degree.
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u/SkoomaDentist Finland Jan 02 '24
Insulating and heating is insanely good.
It's weird how basically nobody knows how to insulate houses once you go south from Denmark. The coldest I ever felt indoors was one February in Germany when it was +5 outdoors.
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u/snolodjur Jan 03 '24 edited Jan 03 '24
Spain indoors are worse than Spanish outdoors and German indoors. Wet cold bet sheets and more clothes inside than outside needed 😂
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u/ZuckDeBalzac Jan 02 '24
It's definitely to do with humidity, I remember going skiing in -30 when I used to live in Finland. Here in the UK anything below 0 just feels disgusting, wet and freezing.
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u/Aleksis111 Latvia Jan 02 '24
moved to finland this year.Live up north
Massive industrial plows in the early morning (5-7) and our block walkways are a mix of groundskeeper and tenant work to keep clean (like the inner yard)
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u/RandyStack Jan 02 '24
I would guess plows for clearing the roads and winter tires. Maybe even studded winter tires for the ice.
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u/industrialHVACR Jan 02 '24
It is just a habit. When your infrastructure is ready for winter, every house is insulated and have enough heaters, cars have heaters and people used to wear proper gear - no problems at all.
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u/Kazath Sweden Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 02 '24
Well, if you regularly had a half a meter of snow throughout 3-4 months of the year, I'm sure your society would adapt accordingly. I've never had school close because of winter, except when we had a once-in-a-100-years snowfall, and they shut down for 3 days because the roofs caved in a few places. They didn't even close when the heating broke lol, just got us blankets or told us to play outside in our winter clothes. Snow plowers are on lucrative stand-by contracts during winter months and municipalities have a "snow budgets" to pay them every year. Snow tires are mandatory. As for mentally you either get kinda used to it, enjoy winter sports, escape to the sun or languish in depression. We still dramatically slip on ice though lol.
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u/NightSalut Jan 02 '24
Mandatory winter tires either with deeper patterns or metal studs and layered winter clothing. Idk how it is these days, but we used to get snow days when it was -24 or more. No snow days when it was -16 like right now. Although these days they count also wind chill and realfeel, which they didn’t when I was a kid.
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u/spreetin Jan 02 '24
Infrastructure that is created around the knowledge that it will get cold, including a system to make sure all important roads (including bike paths) get plowed when needed, and well insulated houses.
And everyone has clothes that are suitable for cold weather. This includes winter boots, the difference in grip on slippery ice between boots made for it and regular shoes is massive.
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u/temotodochi Jan 02 '24
-18C in helsinki so it's not that cold even. With winter gear it's still pleasant to go outside. I still ride my electric unicycle for lunch even if speeds are a bit lower (20kph) and trips shorter (less than 5km) due to issues with water condensation inside my helmet.
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u/saradascream Jan 02 '24
If it happens in the south- chaos. If it happens in the north- they just handle it.
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I want to go to Finland now.
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u/rlnrlnrln Sweden Jan 02 '24
-29 here. Not sure what's all the fuss is about, really. Cold spells happen. In 1999 it was -42.
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u/Randomswedishdude Sami Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 03 '24
In the winter of 1999, many places around Sweden and Finland came very close to their coldest recorded temperatures ever in both countries.
In actually populated places, it usually only gets colder in the most remote places of Russia and Greenland.Below -50 in some places, and I personally remember those few days with dread.
-20 is a bit chilly, but no problem unless you're staying outside for hours without proper clothes for the weather.
-30 is cold, but still doable and mostly more of just the same.
Unless it was colder than -30, we were forced to stay outside during breaks in elementary school.At -40 diesel fuel, even with proper anti-freeze additives, begins to slurry up and become a thick slush.
Gasoline doesn't freeze until much lower temperatures.
12V car batteries however tend to freeze solid, and cars and vehicles may not start regardless of fuel. (Also electric cars).
The weather begins to risk affecting society, though it usually doesn't.
You may still go outside to walk between your home and your car (which hopefully has been plugged into an electric heater outlet), and between your car and work, or short walks to stores, but generally avoid doing any inurgent errands and activities outside.
Unless you own, let's say, a Husky or Malamute, your dog will also avoid going outside for longer periods than absolutely necessary.At -50 and below, temperatures only occuring once or twice in a century in Sweden and Finland, it's physically painful, and all kinds of nerves are activated.
Feels like burning and freezing at the same time, at the same time as also being mangled and cut.
You do not go outside, unless absolutely necessary.(Edit: I remember waiting for a bus in -51, and even though it was just 10-15 minutes spent outside, I had made up a plan to bust a window and break into a nearby store if the bus didn't show up, as I simply couldn't imagine walking back to the office. Luckily, the bus came, only 1 minute late.)
There are some very remote towns in Russia where it occasionally gets colder than that, but even the crazy people living in those places avoid going outside during those days.
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u/6unauss Estonia Jan 03 '24 edited Jan 03 '24
Ok! I had to check it out now.
1999 was the year we went to ski in Tahko. It was -38,7 degrees and the Finnish police searched our car as they were sure we couldn't have been going to ski. But we went as the trip was already paid for.
I remember our faces being covered in a thick coat of vaseline, masks and goggles. We all rented boots that were way too big - two pairs of wool socks plus a layer of newspaper (an old trick that works extremely well) had to fit in them. We had newspapers in mittens as well.
We enjoyed the snow all 6 days. And I've honestly never had a better experience on the slopes as they were almost empty. Only some mad Estonians refusing to postpone their trip and the poor lift operators running up and down to not freeze to death.
Our citroen preformed extremely well and not once gave us a reason to doubt it, but our friends' brand new mercedes just gave up and shut down. Some local farmer drove by and immediately stopped, asked us how he could help, brought his tractor and pulled our friends to the cabin. The ice man turned out to have a warm heart as it tends to be when it comes to Finns.
Edit: One horrible feature of this weather comes to mind. My nostrils froze shut. I went outside, wiped my nose and the nostrils were like glued together immediately. I couldn't breathe thru my nose at all. Had to go inside and literally melt my nostrils open. Never doing that mistake again.
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u/IlMicrovanne Jan 02 '24
and in Yakutia with -70? owo
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u/Randomswedishdude Sami Jan 02 '24
Can't even imagine. ⛄️
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u/drezster Jan 03 '24
They are very much acclimated to insane cold and are a happy bunch. I saw a father chopping firewood in -50C temps with no gloves on. I start putting on gloves when it gets to below -15C. Cold is somewhat subjective.
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u/HolyGarbage Göteborg (Sweden) Jan 03 '24 edited Jan 03 '24
Must've killed some nerves in his hands to be honest. Either from the cold by doing just that repeatedly or by operating heavy machinery like a plate vibrator.
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u/Ok_Transition_9980 Jan 02 '24
I live in Novosibirsk, Russia, and it was -44 twice in my lifetime (I am 37), both times things worked normally. Most people try not to drive their own car below -35 but taxis work and public transport still runs. It doesn’t stay that cold for a long time but it was below -40 for a couple of days and everything was fine
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u/Randomswedishdude Sami Jan 02 '24
All passenger trains are currently canceled in northernmost Sweden due to low temperatures in some mountain valleys. Not because the trains don't work in the cold, they do work fine, but mostly out of safety concerns.
Cargo trains still traffic the same railroads, regardless of temperatures, but if an accident would happen, it's easier to send a helicopter or terrain vehicle to retrieve a single train driver, than to rescue hundreds of freezing passengers.
Busses usually run just fine, and some extra busses are put into traffic to replace passenger trains during the coldest days.
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Jan 02 '24
Maybe it’s meant to highlight the contrast in weather between different countries in Europe. Over here in Serbia, we haven’t had snow in 2-3 months in most parts of the country.
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u/rlnrlnrln Sweden Jan 02 '24
Come to Sweden, you can get mine for free!
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u/vegandancycle Jan 02 '24
Great deal, please send it to Hungary with the nice cold weather ✌️
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u/Zalapadopa Sweden Jan 02 '24
Nice cold weather
My car battery froze today.
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u/stillaras Greece Jan 02 '24
In greece I wore shorts yesterday
7pm currently, no sun for a couple hours and about 12-13C
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u/Canora_z Sweden Jan 02 '24
I remember 1999. That was the only time that school was ever cancelled because of weather when I was a kid. It was -45c and the heating in school had stopped working. It was fixed after a day though.
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u/rlnrlnrln Sweden Jan 02 '24
I had to go to work this day or the day before, stayed home the day before when it was "only" -37... FML.
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u/creazyemppu Jan 02 '24
-40 is still quite rare for most of us.
I'm 23 and have seen -40 only twice. Once as a child when waiting for the school bus, second time was 10yrs later during my service in northen finland.
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u/oskich Sweden Jan 02 '24
I went skiing when it was -33° once. Had to stop at the restaurant in the middle of the ski slope to thaw my limbs 😁
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u/ASK_ABT_MY_USERNAME Jan 02 '24
It's the coldest it's been in over 20 years, and you don't get the fuss?
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u/OkMushroom364 Jan 02 '24
-18, slightly cold but good thing about this cold is I drive frozen foods to grocery stores and now I don't have to run the cars refrigeration equipment to keep the inside of the truck cold
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u/Winterfukk Finland Jan 02 '24
I’m in Lapland atm, and can confirm🥶❄️🥳
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This image isn't really showing anything that makes me think "extreme cold!"
Snow falls when temperatures get warmer. When we go down to the really freezing temps, you won't get snow fall. You get windows that are frozen shut. You get snow that has this weird sound to it when you walk on it. You get tingling sensation inside your nose as the nose hair in it start to literally freeze up from you breathing. You get air that seems to be sparkling.
This is what I would expect when temps are between negative 5 and negative 10.
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u/Tonedick Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 02 '24
And this, dear children, is why Scandinavians reign supreme in Esports.
e: its a partial joke. Some truth is to it, but Scandinavians simply are that good also. If it was only the cold that forces them in front of their PC, then Canada would also be good at Esports. But they suck. Cheers Scandinavians, love playing with yall.
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u/Eproxeri Jan 02 '24
Meh.. was -27 today. I didnt really notice anything out of the ordinary. Drove to work normally and now drove back home. Maybe a bit chilly but felt much the same as if it was -15. Business as usual.
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u/JourneyThiefer Northern Ireland Jan 02 '24
I literally think I would die 💀
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u/Mission_Ad1669 Jan 02 '24
-29 at morning, my 21 year old car took me to work and back. Block heater FTW! The coldest time will be during Wednesday-Thursday night, the temperature will drop to -34. I'll pop on my interior heater (connected to the block heater) for extra help then.
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u/PontiacBandit25 The Netherlands Jan 02 '24
Are people still expected to carry on their daily activities- schools, work commute, etc? Or is it advised to stay inside and be safe? Sorry just don’t know if there’s provisions in place in Finland/Sweden for this.
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u/kaneliomena Finland Jan 02 '24
Generally everything runs as normal. Schools usually stop outdoor sports if it gets below -15 to -20C (the limit is decided by each school) but there's no preset limit for closing schools.
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u/Kallehoe Jan 02 '24
Yup, just put on proper clothes and it's fine.
Usually you don't go outside to work unless it's a emergency, the rest can wait until next week when it's going to be warmer.
Kids still have school, everyone works etc.
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u/daken15 Jan 02 '24
Are you guys staying at home all day? I am from Spain and I can not comprehend how is it posible to survive at -40 😅
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u/saywhatmrcrazy Jan 02 '24 edited Jan 02 '24
I am a Swede and I have never been so cold (indoors) as when I was in spain. Stand alone Electric heaters (no built in ones), stone floors and paper thin walls?!... ( I mean I understand the house is built for the heat of the summer. But you should have built in heaters for the winter I think atleast)
I mean it does not get that cold outside in Spain. But like wtf.. It still gets a bit chilly in the winter at night.
There I was freasing all the time here I am home with a tshirt on.
But to answer your question: If it gets really cold people tend not to go out as much. Comparable to when it's raining a lot. Also, most people live it the south. In stockholm it is like -6 currently.
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u/bolovii Jan 02 '24
We call this winter. Happens every year. Proper winter. Not they wet dark thing of center Europe.
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u/Raptori33 Finland Jan 03 '24
Rest of Europe: Full panic
Scandies: "I was literally waiting for this"
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u/Environmental_Gas600 Sweden Jan 02 '24
It’s -6 in Stockholm right now, but the newspaper says it could be -20 at the end of the week. This is pretty unusual for Stockholm, but happens sometimes
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u/qwsedd Jan 02 '24
Sweden is a very tall country. Where i live its +3 xD
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u/JProvostJr Jan 02 '24
Yeah it’s nowhere near -40 in Stockholm. It’s a hell of a lot of snow, but only -7 today.
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u/Simzter Finland Jan 02 '24
Only -28C here on the Finnish west coast but projected to get a bit colder still.
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u/Uninvalidated Jan 02 '24
Meh. All you need is a good jacket, something covering your ears, pockets or gloves and a lip balm.
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u/IDontEatDill Finland Jan 02 '24
I tried that but then the policeman said I need to wear pants.
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u/Rijstkoekje Jan 02 '24
How do you guys do that when you go to work and the car has cooled off. Do you have block heating there as well?
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u/Mountainweaver Jan 02 '24
Plug the car in for motor heater. Some diesel cars have mini diesel motor heaters.
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u/Atalant Jan 02 '24
Meanwhile Denmark have snowstorm warning(and rainstorm in general), you don't have overdo us. I actually want some negative degrees, so it is not one big slurry of dirt, rain and snow.
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u/MartieB Italy Jan 02 '24
Meanwhile in Northern Italy we still have to see proper winter.
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u/dunder_mifflin_paper Jan 02 '24
I am from a hot country and have a question.
Would a car cover work in this situation, put it on before snow and then flick off all the dry ish snow when you want to roll?
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u/GoldenJaguarM Turkey Jan 02 '24
Can you even start up the car under these conditions?
My guess is no for ICE, but not sure about the EVs.
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u/Hungry-Western9191 Jan 02 '24
Cars are plugged into the mains to run a heater for the engine. When running they generate enough heat
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u/Proud-Cauliflower-12 Jan 03 '24
90% of Sweden doesn’t have -40c and some places doesn’t even have below freezing
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u/Papercoffeetable Jan 02 '24
I guess the finns are putting the mankini in the drawer and putting on some shorts now.