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Tuesday April 22, 2025

Snowfall forecast across Finland, mercury goes to -14 °C in north

The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) on Wednesday forecast massive snowfall at different parts of the country from Thursday afternoon. The temperature will drop up to minus 14 degrees Celsius in the northern part of the country while in the south the temperature will fall to in between minus 1

Published: 01:53 am,Wednesday 9 April 2025

Europe sees warmest March on record, 2nd warmest globally

Europe saw its warmest March since records began, with average temperatures climbing just above 6 degrees Celsius — 2.41 degrees higher than the 1991–2020 average, according to EU climate agency Copernicus, reported dpa. Globally, it was the second-warmest March ever recorded. The findings underscore growing concerns that the international goal

Published: 20:07 pm,Thursday 3 April 2025

Finland sees unusually mild March in South

Finland experienced an exceptionally mild temperature in the southern part in March this year, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). Other parts of the country were also milder than usual, said FMI in a press release on Thursday. By the end of the month, there was generally no snow

Published: 00:18 am,Sunday 30 March 2025

Clock advances 1 hour as summer time begins Sunday

Summer time will start early Sunday when the clock will advance by one hour at 3:00 o’clock, said the Ministry of Transport and Communications in a press release. In 2018, the European Commission proposed that the biannual clock changes be abandoned across the EU. However, the initial target schedule

Published: 00:00 am,Monday 10 March 2025

Massive snowfall in East, West, Central Finland forecast

The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) on Sunday forecast snowfall at different parts of the country from late Sunday night to Tuesday. The snowfall likely to start in the West Finland late Sunday night and continue to Central and East parts on Monday and Tuesday, said FMI in a bulletin. The

Published: 22:50 pm,Friday 7 March 2025

Finland sees mild winter with little snow

February's mean temperature varied from 0°C in the country’s southwest to minus 7°C in Eastern Lapland, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). The temperature deviation from the long-term average for 1991–2020 was about two degrees Celsius in the southern part of the country to about seven degrees Celsius

Published: 15:18 pm,Wednesday 5 February 2025

Finland sees unusual mild winter in south, wintry in north in Jan

The average temperature in January varied from 1 degrees Celsius in the southwestern archipelago to about minus 14 degrees Celsius in Northern Lapland, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). January was an unusually mild month in the south of the country and in places in the centre, which

Published: 12:57 pm,Friday 17 January 2025

Polar night ends in Finland as Utsjoki sees sunrise

The polar night ((endless night) ended at Nuorgam, the northernmost village in Utsjoki, Finland on Friday after about two months. The sunrise took place at 11:56 am and set at 12:56 pm, according to Finnish weather forecasting company Foreca. The duration of the first day was one hour. The polar night

Published: 01:52 am,Wednesday 15 January 2025

NASA confirms 2024 warmest year on record

Earth's average surface temperature in 2024 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis led by NASA scientists, reported Xinhua. Global temperatures in 2024 were 1.28 degrees Celsius above the agency's 20th-century baseline (1951-1980). The new record comes after 15 consecutive months (June 2023 through August 2024)

Published: 04:37 am,Sunday 12 January 2025

2024 marked by exceptional rainfall, flooding: study

The year 2024 witnessed a number of new records for extreme weather, most prominently characterized by torrential rains and floods that swept across the globe, according to Chinese and foreign meteorologists, reported Xinhua. In a paper published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on Saturday, an international

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