Helsinki: The northern Lapland Arctic area of Finland has recorded the hottest temperatures for more than a century at 33.6 degrees Celsius (92.5 Fahrenheit), during a heat wave that has inflicted all Nordic countries for weeks.
The temperature was measured Monday at the northernmost Finnish Utsjoki-Kevo weather station near the border with Norway by the Finnish Meteorology Institute.
The Institute said there was only one higher historical measurement reported in Lapland – 34.7 C in the Thule Inari area, in July 1914.
In early July had been very warm in Lapland, one of the last wilder forests left in Europe known as the season That very cold cold.
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This region, Finland is the largest by the surface, host records for the coldest temperature in 5.5 million countries.
“Exceptional in Lapland to record temperatures” from more than 32 C, Tuovinen’s finger, a meteorologist at the Finnish Meteorology Institute, told Finland’s Public Broadcaster YLE.
He said the current heat waves in Lapland were the results of applicable high pressure which caused warm air in the area.
In addition, “warm air has been brought from Central Europe to the north through the Norwegian Sea,” Tuovinen told YLE.
Nordic Neighbors Norwegian and Sweden recently recorded high temperatures in the north, where the Saltdal Norwegian municipality recorded 34 C this week.
High temperatures of all time Finland 37.2 c were measured in the eastern city of Joensuu in 2010, YLE reported.