Temperatures reached a record low for this winter in Gothenburg on Tuesday morning. Minus 7.3 degrees Celsius at 6:00 in the morning is the lowest temperature in the city since the start of November.
The cold air is due to a massive high pressure system over western Russia, says meteorologist Erik Rindeskär to GP. The high pressure system over Russia blocks the mild air from the west that usually remains over the Atlantic. This pushes away low pressure systems.
The freezing conditions are expected to remain well into the middle of next week. At the end of this week it will also get colder during the daytime.
"In Gothenburg it will stay around [minus] ten. But further inland it can get down to fifteen, twenty," says Erik Rindeskär, to GP.
