Icebreakers will still be needed far into the future as winters bring more extreme phenomena, with ice masses already as thick as 10 metres in some spots.
Helsingin Sanomat writes about a Finnish couple who had been struggling in Helsinki but fulfilled their dreams of running a successful business and starting a family after moving to Estonia.
The nationwide average temperature for last year was 4.5 degrees Celsius, the Finnish Meteorological Institute reports, which is 1.6 degrees higher than the long-term average for the years 1991–2020.
Rubber boots rather than skis or skates are becoming the winter norm through much of Finland, experts say. How will the evolving season affect us in the future?