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6 months ago

Cold but dry weather ahead for the weekend

Temperatures will mostly range between -10 and -15 degrees Celsius nationwide.
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6 months ago

Tuesday’s papers: Finland’s deep freeze, Russian rhetoric, and Tampere’s men-only club

A bone-chilling start to February in Finland has seen plunging temperatures and soaring electricity prices, but also satisfied tourists.
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6 months ago

Finnish Lapland sees coldest January in nearly 40 years

Spot prices for electricity set a new record on Monday as Finland plunged into a deep freeze.
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6 months ago

Southern Finland’s record-breaking cold to continue

The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) has issued warnings for potentially dangerous cold temperatures across most of Finland on Saturday.
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6 months ago

Thursday’s papers: Finland’s homeless numbers grow, flu season ‘rages’, and it’s going to get colder

An increasing number of people with foreign backgrounds have nowhere to call home in Finland, newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet reports.
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6 months ago

FMI issues warning of hazardous driving conditions as snowfall, freezing rain forecast

A bus carrying around 30 schoolchildren skidded off the road near Porvoo on Friday morning. No injuries were reported.
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6 months ago

Thursday’s papers: Parliament’s harassment suspicions, EU deal affects meat prices, and roads getting messy

The agreement opens the markets of South America’s Mercosur bloc to Europe, which will mean an influx of imported, and possibly cheaper, meat into Finland.
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6 months ago

Cold eases as wet weather approaches

Over the weekend, temperatures across the country are expected to rise to between zero and minus five degrees Celsius.
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6 months ago

More flights to and from Lapland cancelled, hazardous roads in southern and central Finland

Thousands of foreign tourists are waiting in Kittilä for word about the status of their return flights.
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6 months ago

Finland registers new record cold temperature for this winter: -42.8C

The chilly conditions are expected to continue into the weekend, with lows of -40C in Finnish Lapland and -20C in the south of the country.
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