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After the warmest June ever recorded in Finland and many parts of Sweden, Mercury has been flirting since Sunday with record temperatures in northern Europe, ranging between 30-35 ° C.
In Quebec, in the northern tip of Finland, a temperature of 33.5 degrees Celsius was recorded on Sunday, the highest recorded in this region after the absolute record of 34.7 degrees in 1914, according to the STT agency.
Nationwide, June was the warmest month ever recorded since records began in 1844. The average temperature reached 16.5 ° C, breaking the previous record set in the 1950s.
In neighboring Sweden, June was also the warmest month ever recorded in Stockholm, with an average of 19.3 points. In other words, they broke the previous records of 2018 and 2019.
"Is there a trend? "Well, it's probably a coincidence," Greta Thunberg, a well-known activist, joked in a Twitter post.
In Norway, the Meteorological Institute reported that the temperature reached 34 degrees on Sunday in Saltdal, a community close to the Arctic Circle. The absolute record of the country is 35.6 points.
"Tropical nights", meaning that the thermometer does not fall below 20 degrees, were also recorded in many other areas.
This summer the absolute heat record was set in Canada: almost 50 degrees Celsius in the shade.
According to a study published in May, the Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the planet, a trend that does not seem to be stopping any time soon.
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