Published: 01:13 am,Sunday 28 December 2025
Power outage at many households as storm blows over Finland
A strong winter storm named Hannes blew over Finland, particularly in western and northern parts on Saturday afternoon leaving thousands of households without power supply, local media reported. Power supply at about 14,000 households in western Finland were disrupted by Saturday afternoon after trees fell on the electricity lines due
Published: 00:45 am,Saturday 27 December 2025
Strong wind forecast as low pressure over sea intensifies
Very strong wind is likely to blow over the South-western part of the country on Saturday afternoon as a well-marked low pressure, created over the southern Bothnian Sea, intensified further, said the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) in a release on Thursday. The strong wind will particularly affect the maritime
Published: 02:21 am,Wednesday 17 December 2025
Arctic sees warmest year on record since 1900
Surface air temperatures across the Arctic from October 2024 through September 2025 were the warmest on record since 1900, according to an annual report released Tuesday by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), reported Xinhua. Autumn 2024 and winter 2025 were especially warm across the Arctic,
Published: 02:43 am,Friday 5 December 2025
WMO forecasts weak La Nina in coming months
There is a 55 percent chance of a weak La Nina impacting global weather and climate patterns during the next three months, according to the latest updates from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Thursday, reported Xinhua. La Nina refers to the periodic large-scale cooling of the surface temperatures
Published: 00:08 am,Thursday 4 December 2025
Finland sees unusually warm autumn excepting Lapland
This autumn (September–November) was unusually or exceptionally warm almost throughout the whole country, with the exception of Lapland, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). Many observation stations reported this as the second-warmest autumn on record. For example, this was the case at Jokioinen and Maaninka, in Kuopio, which
Published: 22:04 pm,Tuesday 25 November 2025
Polar night begins in Northern Finland
The polar night ((endless night) has begun at Nuorgam, the northernmost village in Utsjoki in Finland on Tuesday afternoon. The sun set at 12:28pm in Utsjoki and little bit earlier at Nuorgam. According to Finnish weather forecasting company Foreca, it will not rise at Nuorgam for about seven weeks.
Published: 22:26 pm,Sunday 16 November 2025
Colder week forecast as mercury drops to minus 28.3 °C in Lapland
Temperature fell down in most parts of Finland during the weekend and the country is likely to experience colder weather from Monday, Finnish weather forecasting company Foreca said late Sunday night. Country´s lowest temperature minus 28.3 degrees Celsius was recorded at Tulppio in Savukoski, a municipality under Lapland region
Published: 23:24 pm,Sunday 2 November 2025
Finland sees warmer October than usual
October was warmer than usual throughout the country and even the northern part of the country was unusually warm, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). The average temperature in October ranged between 1.5 degrees Celsius in Enontekiö in the far northwest to about 10 degrees in the southwestern
Published: 19:09 pm,Saturday 25 October 2025
Clock goes back 1 hour as winter time begins Sunday
The winter time will start early Sunday when the clock will turn back by an hour at 4.00am. Although the European Parliament in spring 2019 voted on European Commission's proposal that all EU Member States stop adjusting the clocks for daylight saving, the initial target schedule for the proposal