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Bulgaria's Arctic blast to continue until Friday

Wed, Feb 01 2012 10:12 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Bulgaria's Arctic blast to continue until Friday

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February 1 may mark the start of a new month, but the extreme cold showed no sign of abating in Bulgaria with temperatures still plummeting to record lows.

Forecasters say that only on Friday February 3 will temperatures return to more normal levels.

The weekend should see a return to more normal seasonal temperatures with highs of minus one degree and lows of minus six degrees in Sofia.

On the morning of February 1, Sofians woke up to temperatures of minus 19 degrees Celsius, albeit in bright sunshine. Vidin was minus 14, Varna minus 15, Rousse minus 17 and Plovdiv minus 18.

Elsewhere, Romania's capital Bucharest woke to minus 16, Athens was one degree above freezing, Salonika minus one and Belgrade minus eight degrees. London, meanwhile, registered a very mild zero on the morning of February 1 but that did not stop the Daily Mail highlighting the possibility of 1500 deaths a week in the current cold spell in the UK and warning that overnight temperatures in some remote areas could - possibly - fall to as low as minus 10 degrees. The same article says that temperatures will be comparable to those of the South Pole, conveniently omitting to mention that it is summer in the southern hemisphere.

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