News

Eastern Europe remains in the grip of extreme heat and spreading wildfires, while Western Europe cools down with storms and rain. What weather have you experienced in the past week?
Finland has shattered its national weather record, experiencing 14 consecutive days exceeding 30°C, surpassing the previous ...
The Arctic city of Rovaniemi in northern Finland, home to Santa Claus and known for snow and winter holidays, has been ...
The official home town of Father Christmas has been hit with a record-breaking heatwave, stoking fears that wildfires that ...
The heatwave has left much of the country’s surface soil parched, prompting the Meteorological Institute to issue wildfire ...
After an unusually cold early summer, the whole of Finland has been plunged into two weeks of high temperatures.
Heat alert thresholds differ by country. In Finland, warnings are triggered when highs reach 27 degrees or daily averages exceed 20 degrees. In Sweden, yellow alerts are issued if temperatures are ...
Moscow sweltered on Friday in a heatwave with temperatures topping 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the Russian weather service, breaching a municipal record registered ...
When a hurricane or a wildfire strikes, the economic damage is usually very visible — roofs are ripped off or charred homes line roads. Heat waves cause financial damage, too, ...
Around 2,300 people died of heat-related causes across 12 European cities during the severe heatwave that ended last week, according to an analysis.
Europe is not built for the heat. It’s all that residents like the Monitor’s Paris correspondent can do to find ways to keep just a little bit cooler.
Europe heatwave: Spain summer heat breaks records as temperatures hit 46C while 50,000 flee Turkey wildfires Record temperature recorded in Portugal as heat lowers water level of Germany’s Rhine ...