Sápmi in deep freeze

Residents of the Sápmi community of Karasjók in northern Norway are shivering as temperatures sink to their lowest levels in 85 years. Temperatures in Karasjók have been hovering around -39.6 ° C. Last month, the average temperature was -23.1 ° C, six degrees below normal.

The record of -51.4 ° C was set in 1886. “We are used to the cold. It has to be colder than -40 ° C before we consider closing schools,” a local school official told the Aftenposten newspaper.