IN PICTURES: Winter scenes as snow blankets Sweden
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Published: 28 Jan, 2021 CET.
Updated: Thu 28 Jan 2021 17:23 CET
Temperatures dropped on Thursday and treated Stockholmers to a snow day – for better or worse. Here's what the wintry weather looks like – and how it compares to a city further north.
Stockholmers walking through a snowy Swedish capital:
Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
Bicycle couriers still had to deliver food orders:
Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
A bus making its way through the capital:
Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
North of Stockholm, a 20-vehicle pile-up caused long queues:
Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT
But if you think that's a lot of snow, it's nothing compared to the northern town of Örnsköldsvik, which looked like this earlier this week:
Photo: Erik Mårtensson/TT
This car in Örnsköldsvik is almost completely covered in snow:
Photo: Erik Mårtensson/TT
Here's a boat and a truck trying to clear the snow off the streets of Örnsköldsvik:
Photo: Erik Mårtensson/TT
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Stockholmers walking through a snowy Swedish capital:
Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
Bicycle couriers still had to deliver food orders:
Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
A bus making its way through the capital:
Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT
North of Stockholm, a 20-vehicle pile-up caused long queues:
Photo: Pontus Lundahl/TT
But if you think that's a lot of snow, it's nothing compared to the northern town of Örnsköldsvik, which looked like this earlier this week:
Photo: Erik Mårtensson/TT
This car in Örnsköldsvik is almost completely covered in snow:
Photo: Erik Mårtensson/TT
Here's a boat and a truck trying to clear the snow off the streets of Örnsköldsvik:
Photo: Erik Mårtensson/TT
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