Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 06 Jul 2021, 12:22 pm Print
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Finland has been reeling under heatwave for weeks and the temperature in its northernmost Arctic Lapland region has recorded the highest temperature in over a century with mercury shooting up to 33.6 C.
The temperature soared to the record level on Monday at Finland’s northernmost Utsjoki-Kevo weather station near the border with Norway by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, according to an Al Jazeera report.
There is only one instance of mercury breaching Monday's measurement in Lapland – 34.7 C in the Inari Thule area, in July 1914, it added.
Known for its extremely cold winters, the region is Europe's one of the last remaining wildernesses, it attracts nature domestic and international nature lovers in both summers and winters. This year, July has been exceptionally warm in Lapland which usually records the coldest temperatures.
The heat wave in Lapland has been generated from the prevailing high pressure causing warm air in the area and more warm air has been brought in from Central Europe to the north through the Norwegian Sea, Jari Tuovinen, a meteorologist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, told the Finnish public broadcaster YLE, according to the report.
It is exceptional to record temperatures over 32 C in Lapland, he noted.
Norway and Sweden have also recently recorded high temperatures in the north.
In 2010, Finland's Joensuu had recorded 37.2 C, which remains the country's highest ever temperature.
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