Heat records in Norway and Finland in June, followed by a heat wave well over the 1930s on the scale far up in the north, have made the Nordic region a hot topic in the British newspaper The Guardian.
“Nordic countries are experiencing a heat wave”, the newspaper wrote on Monday, and stated that this weekend it was over 34 degrees in several places – plus – in a region best known for its biting cold.
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Among the places that attract attention with their heat are the airport Banak, near Lakselv in Porsanger municipality in Finnmark, and Kevo in Finland.
In a tweet that the Guardian reproduces, it writes British meteorologist Scott Duncan that a higher temperature than Monday’s 34.3 degrees in Banak has never before been recorded as far north as 70 degrees in Europe.
– We have never seen this in Northern Europe before, writes the Scottish meteorologist Scott Duncan on Twitter.
– Words intact
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On-duty meteorologist Hanne Beate Skattør at the Meteorological Institute gives him a conditional right.
– In Norway, such high temperatures have not been measured before in Troms and Finnmark. He has his words intact for Norway at least, says Skattør to Dagbladet.
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After looking at the map and finding that only extremely small areas in Europe are further north than 70 degrees, she does not at all disregard the fact that the claim also applies to the whole of Europe.
June heat records
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The month of June was unusually hot in the Nordic countries, and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute reports on its website that it is the fifth warmest month of June in Norway since the measurements started in 1900.
Several stations in East Finnmark have set new heat records for June, including Berlevåg airport with 25.9 degrees on 12 June.
Taxman explains the hot weather with high pressure over both Europe and Russia, and that it is from there that the air currents have come recently.
Lapland under extreme heat right now. 34.3°C at Banak, Norway ???????? This level of heat has never been observed above 70 degrees north in Europe before.
Scandinavia has been in the oven for a while. A very hot June followed by a hot start to July. Widely 10-15°C hotter than average. pic.twitter.com/dYLHOMrhLQ
— Scott Duncan (@ScottDuncanWX) July 5, 2021
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– We like to get warmer air if it comes from the east or the south, she says and explains that there are large land areas, and not sea areas where the air is not heated in the same way.
Link to North America
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The article in the Guardian shows the heat wave in connection with the even more intense heat in North America, which has cost 95 people their lives in the state of Oregon alone.
According to Australian meteorology professor Michael Reeder, heat waves propagate across oceans and continents across much of the globe.
“The high temperatures over Scandinavia are directly linked to what happened in North America,” Reeder told the Guardian.
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