Lapland region hit by heatwave

FINLAND’S Lapland region has recorded its hottest temperature for more than a century at 33.6C, during a heatwave that has been afflicting the country for weeks.

The temperature was measured at Finland’s northernmost UtsjokiKevo weather station near the border with Norway by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The institute said there was only one higher measurement reported in Lapland – 34.7C in the Inari Thule area in July 1914.