Utsjoki

Meteorologisk institutt reports that March 2026 was the warmest March ever recorded in Norway, with temperatures far above normal and 111 station records set. Parts of Finnmark and Nordland also experienced extremely wet conditions.

The Norwegian Veterinary Institute begins building a trap at Seida to sort out invasive pink salmon migrating up the Tana River.

Temperature records continued to be broken this week in Utsjoki, Finland's northernmost municipality. Despite thie, the autumn migration of birds is proceeding at a fairly standard pace, according to Birdlife Finland.

Lapland was Finland's hottest region on Monday with a measuring station in the village of Utsjoki recording 33.5 degrees celsius. A high-pressure front dominating Central and Eastern Europe is behind the drought and high temperature readings.

Researchers found two chironomid (non-biting midge) species previously unknown to science in tributaries of the Teno River in northern Finland (the Utsjoki and Vetsijoki rivers). The discovery highlights that northern freshwater ecosystems may still contain undocumented biodiversity.