Climate change and ice-free Arctic seas are contributing to milder temperatures in Finland.

This autumn was unusually warm across Finland, with the Finnish Meteorological Institute noting it was the fourth mildest in history.

It was the hottest summer in the 174-year history of weather records in Helsinki, and the second hottest in the 118-year history of the weather station in Sodankylä, Lapland.

There were a total of 50 'heatwave' days in Finland this summer, when the temperature rose to above 25 degrees Celsius.

The Finnish Meteorological Institute reported that 2024 was an exceptionally warm year in Finland, with the average temperature notably above normal, particularly in Northern Lapland.