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The Meteorological Institute in Finland announced that a national record of over 50 was shot down, registering the longest period with temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius in the history of measurements, AFP reports.
In Parrikala, in the east of Finland, the thermometers reached 30.3 degrees Celsius before the middle of the day, being the 14 consecutive day with temperatures of 30 degrees in different areas of the country. The previous record was 13 consecutive days and the date of June-July 1972.
“This is the longest period of consecutive days with temperatures exceeding 30 ° C since the recordings began in 1961,” wrote the Meteorological Institute on X.
A period of hot weather “exceptionally long”
The northern country is currently in the middle of a hot period that the Institute has described as “exceptionally long” in certain places.
Meteorologist Ville Siiskonen from the Finland Meteorological Institute has told AFP that global warming, in general, means that such hot periods will be more common in the future, but the current record cannot be attributed to climatic changes without further studies.
“The hot weather periods will be longer and there may be more,” he said.
The record comes one year after the Lapland region in northern Finland, Norway and Sweden has experienced the hottest summer in the last 2,000 years in 2024, climate change increasing the probability of such exceptional hot summers about a hundred times.
In Romania, for the interval on Saturday, 10 o'clock, Sunday, the same hour, the meteorologists have issued a red code, warning that “the heat wave will intensify in Banat, Oltenia, most of the Muntenia and the south of the continental Dobrogea, where it will be heat and maximum temperatures of 39 … 43 degrees”. After the heat temperatures, a period with accentuated atmospheric instability will follow.
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