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Previously, the Finnish National Meteorological Institute reported that it had recorded the highest temperature in June since measurements began in 1844.
On Sunday, a 33.5-degree heat baked in the Kevo area on the northern outskirts of Finland on Sunday, the highest since 1914, when a 34.7-degree heat was recorded, according to an STT news agency. .
June heat records were also recorded in several areas of Sweden.
“June 2021 was the hottest June in my city of Stockholm, and by no means,” Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg wrote on Twitter.
“The second hottest June was in 2020. The third is in 2019.”
“Do I see a trend here? No, it’s probably just one more coincidence, ”the activist wrote sarcastically.
Nationally, June this year was the third hottest in the history of meteorological measurements in Sweden.
In the municipality of Saltdal, in the far north of Norway, near the Arctic Circle, the Meteorological Institute measured a temperature of 34 degrees.
This temperature is the highest on record in the country this year and just 1.6 degrees lower than Norway’s all-time heat record.
This year, several regions of the world have already faced grueling heat waves.
Canada is fighting a series of wildfires in the western province of British Columbia, where a new national heat record of 49.6 degrees has been set.
In addition, on Thursday, the United Nations confirmed the highest temperature recorded last year on the Antarctic continent, where the weather was warm at 18.3 degrees.
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