Fierce cold has moved into Arctic Scandinavia providing the coldest morning of winter.

At 830 UTC this morning

, it was -41C in Norway, -38C in Finland and -34C Sweden.

UPDATED WEDNESDAY EVENING…

Tonight is still early but it’s already colder than this morning…

CURRENTLY -42.4C at Kautokeino, Norway, -39C at Inari Vayla, Finland, the wind chill hit -50.2C here this afternoon.

Meanwhile here in the UK, it’s a colder night thanks to strong surface high pressure clearing out the skies and dropping the wind but lack of reflective snow cover means -7C at best I think.

The major wind and snow system pulling south over central Europe will open the door to this severe cold pulling south out of Scandinavia and over the fresh, deep snow cover of the Baltics, Poland, Czech and Germany in the coming days.

-20s even for southern Germany, -30s possible in Czech, Poland and Baltics.

Major snowfall for Poland, Germany, Italy, Balkans, Greece and western Turkey!