#Finland - Thousands of tourists stranded after unexpected extreme weather leaves major region frozen over: 'It's simply too cold'

Timothy McGill, Sat, January 17, 2026

Excerpt: "It will be frigid in Finland this week. Cold warnings have been issued for large portions of the country through Thursday. The cold forced the cancellation of flights at an airport in northern Finland that stranded thousands of tourists on Sunday.

#Kittilä Airport is particularly busy this time of the year because the region it serves is popular with skiers. At one point, a leading ski resort reported that it had stopped running its chairlifts and gondolas because temperatures had dipped into the negative 30s Celsius (-22 F to -39.9 Fahrenheit).

This week's deep freeze in Finland is part of a weather pattern that has brought nasty winter weather, including heavy snowfall in spots, in parts of Europe."

Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/thousands-tourists-stranded-unexpected-extreme-020000042.html

#PolarVortex #ArcticBlast #ExtremeCold #EuropeWx #DeepFreeze

BBC: Wildfires rage across southern Europe as temperatures top 40C

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd3my4e0pqo

#heatwave #EuropeWx #wildfires #climateemergency

BBC: Temperatures climb across UK as parts of Europe battle wildfires

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/clyrrx7pnedt

#ukwx #heatwave #europewx #climateemergency

Europe: wildfires, and flooding, oh my.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jul/08/us-defensive-military-aid-ukraine-eu-tariffs-macron-robert-fico-trial-europe-live?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-686d27588f084bf9154ba3f9#block-686d27588f084bf9154ba3f9

#WX #EuropeWx #wildfires

'Unprecedented' alerts in #France as blistering #heat grips #Europe

Kathryn Armstrong, BBC News, June 30, 2025

Excerpt: "The highest UK temperature of the day was recorded at Heathrow Airport in London at 33.1C. Meanwhile, Wimbledon recorded a temperature of 32.9C, the tennis tournament's hottest opening day on record.

"Meanwhile, heat alerts across #Spain, which is on course to record its hottest June on record, remained in place.

" 'I can't sleep well and have insomnia. I also get heat strokes, I stop eating and I just can't focus,' Anabel Sanchez, 21, told Reuters news agency in Seville.

"It is a similar situation in #Portugal, where seven districts, including the capital, Lisbon, are on the highest alert level.

"In #Germany, the country's meteorological service warned that temperatures could reach almost 38C on Tuesday and Wednesday - further potentially record-breaking temperatures.

"The #heatwave lowered levels in the #RhineRiver - a major shipping route - limiting the amount cargo ships can transport and raising freighting costs.

"Countries in and around the #Balkans have also been struggling with the intense heat, although temperatures have begun to cool.

"In #Turkey, rescuers evacuated more than 50,000 people - mostly from the resort city of Izmir in the country's west - as firefighters continued to put out hundreds of wildfires that had broken out in recent days.

"The fires were fuelled by winds of 120km/h (75 mph) and destroyed at least 20 homes.

"Wildfires also broke out in #Croatia, where red heat warnings are in place for coastal areas. An extreme temperature alert was issued for neighbouring #Montenegro."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7781e915o

#ClimateChange #Heatwaves #ExtremeHeat #EuropeWx #ExtremeWeather #GlobalWarming #GlobalBoiling

BBC: Heavy snow blocks Alpine resorts in Switzerland and France

"...Although snow is not uncommon in the Alps in April, the disruption left thousands of homes in the Savoie region of eastern France without power...
Road and rail routes were cut off into the resort of Zermatt in the southern canton of Valais; power was cut throughout Thursday and mobile phone networks were badly disrupted.."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8gzvv47kjo

#snow #WX #extremeweather #extremewx #europewx

European Fire News via @CopernicusEU

"Another source for identification of active fires [in #Europe] is built through firenews: the news items are selected from a large set of RSS feeds published by various forest fires related sites, and from news feeds filtered out with appropriate keywords. Items from selected feeds are then geolocated and published on the #EFFIS web site, in the #FireNews section."

https://forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu/apps/firenews.viewer/

#ClimateCrisis #WildFires
#FireWx #EuropeWx #Maps #EuropeFires #EUWx