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Swedish Lulea sees record snow-depth

Xinhua, February 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

A new snow-depth record was reached in Lulea, northern Sweden, Tuesday morning, where meteorologists measured an accumulation of 113 cm of snow.

The snow depth broke a 50-year-old record. The closest it has come in the intervening years was in the winter of 1966, when the snow depth in the same area reached 111 cm, Swedish Television reported.

"I'm not sure I've ever seen anything like it," weatherman Roland Ronnqvist told Swedish Television. "It's a lot and it came in a short time, too. I don't recall having seen this much snow before during my time on the job." Endit