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Last summer in Lapland likely warmest in 2,000 years

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Last summer in Lapland was the warmest on record, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute .

The average temperature at the Tähtelä observatory in Sodankylä in June and August reached 15.9 degrees Celsius.

Researchers reconstructed summer mean temperatures in northern Fennoscandia over the past two millennia based on studies of annual pine tree rings.

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