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19 Feb 2021, 12:18 GMT
The aurora borealis unfolds above the boreal forest in northern Finland. Photographer Stian Klo: “When it happens, and its fast, you forget about the -30 degrees Celsius and frozen fingers and toes.”
Photograph by Stian Klo
ICY fingers have been massaging the UK in recent weeks. Temperatures reached -23 degrees Celsius in Braemar, the coldest pocket of Scotland, on the 10th February – the lowest for 26 years. But even in the whitest season, there are elements of the northern winter our modest latitude and mild ocean current can’t compete with. For some, that’s a good thing; but for others, winter is the time when the landscape is at its best. And there are few locations in the world that demonstrate why quite as dramatically as northern Scandinavia. (