The official home village of Father Christmas has been hit with a record-breaking heatwave, stoking fears that wildfires that ...

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 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 ...

The 1995 heat wave in Chicago killed 739 people and changed the nation’s approach to urban heat waves.

Finland recorded its hottest temperature of the summer on Sunday, as the heatwave gripping the country continued to intensify. According to the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), the new seasonal ...

Finland recorded its hottest day of the summer as temperatures exceeded 30°C in multiple regions. A tropical night followed in the south, while intense thunderstorms and heavy rain triggered flood ...

Climate change caused by humans played a direct role in the deaths of about 1,504 people during a heat wave that struck Europe last week, a new report has found.

Scientists have linked last week’s European heat wave to human-caused climate change and estimate that climate change was responsible for 1,500 deaths.