Baltic Sea Sets March Ice Record…”Never Seen This Much Ice This Late In The Season”

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" ‘Since record keeping began in the sixties, we’ve never encountered anything like this before,’ ice breaker Ulf Gulldne told the local newspaper Örnsköldsviks Allehanda. On March 29th, 176,000 square kilometers of the Baltic Sea was covered in ice, a record for the time of year.” To blame is the long protracted winter with its unusually cold temperatures. The Local quotes a captain of an ice-breaker: I’ve never seen this much ice this late in the season,” said Karl Herlin, captain of the icebreaker Atle."