A new cold temperature record for this winter, -28.6 degrees Celsius, was registered at the weather station of Narva in northeastern Estonia on Wednesday, spokespeople for the weather service said.
The coldest temperature registered last winter was -20.7 degrees, measured at the weather station of Vaike-Maarja on January 7.
The lowest air temperature ever recorded in Estonia is -43.5 degrees, measured at the weather station of the regional capital Jogeva in eastern Estonia on January 17, 1940.