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* Featured * Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 1 Finland General 

Snow expected in Finnish Lapland on Wednesday

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 10:59
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The mild weather of recent days is set to continue this week, with intermittent local snow and rain showers, according

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General News RCI 

Warming climate poses challenge to Arctic animals — and those who hunt them

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 11:10
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When David Kuptana looked out the window of his home in Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., and across the Beaufort Sea last Friday,

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* Featured * Art Art (Canada) Art and Culture Canada Featured • Zone 3 General News RCI 

Canadian snow carvers to compete at international contest in Sweden

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 27, 2021 at 10:21 — Last Updated: Monday, December 27, 2021 at 10:26
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When Anthony Foliot, also known as the Snowking, found out about an international snow carving competition in Sweden last spring,

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 2 Finland General News 

Finland expects a white Christmas nationwide

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 09:11
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Finland will wake up the morning of Christmas Eve to a winter wonderland, according to a forecast from the Finnish

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Finland Society Society (Finland) 

Finnish Lapland ski resort to preserve snow for next season after closing earlier due to COVID-19

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, April 10, 2020 at 15:41
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About 150,000 m2 of snow will be preserved for next season with new cover techniques. Like all ski resorts in

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Unusual amounts of snow and ice threaten reindeer in Arctic Norway

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, March 23, 2020 at 12:55
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“It’s a serious crisis,” says Elisabeth Aspaker, County Governor of Norway’s northernmost region. She calls on everyone not to disturb

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Finland Society Society (Finland) 

Finnish Lapland sees tourism boom in January

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 14:19 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 13:21
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The number of tourists visiting Finnish Lapland grew by 12.5 percent in January compared to the same period last year,

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Finland Society Society (Finland) 

Lack of snow due to warmer temperatures puts a damper on Finnish winter hobbies

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at 16:43
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This winter in southern and western parts of Finland has been dark, wet and unusually warm — what many Finns

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland 

40 C temperature gap between northern and southern Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, January 20, 2020 at 10:29 — Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2020 at 10:31
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Winter temperatures reached their lowest level this winter when the mercury dropped to 37.7 degrees below freezing in Kevojärvi in

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Finland Society Society (Finland) 

Record Christmas snow cover in Finnish Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, December 23, 2019 at 11:50
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Many Lapland residents will spend this Christmas enjoying record snow cover, according to data from the Finnish Meteorological Institute, FMI.

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Heavy snowfall in northwestern Canada left thousands without power

CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 7, 2019 at 16:37
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About 5,500 residents in southern Yukon, northwestern Canada, lost power after a heavy snowfall Saturday night that caused trees to

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Snowfall in central, eastern Finland makes roads slippery

Yle News
Posted: Friday, October 4, 2019 at 10:13 — Last Updated: Friday, October 4, 2019 at 13:39
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Winter arrived in eastern Finland on Friday morning, with 4-5cm of snow falling in the morning and more on the

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

First snow in northwest Finland no surprise to reindeer herders

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 16:18
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The first snow of the season fell in Finland’s northwestern arm on Wednesday morning, from the village of Karesuvanto in

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Goodbye snow? High pressure front to bring warm spring weather in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Friday, April 12, 2019 at 15:19
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Finland may be in for some real signs of spring in the coming days, as it looks like the weather

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Winter isn’t over in Northern Finland

Yle News
Posted: Friday, April 5, 2019 at 10:11
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A high pressure zone is bringing sunny skies to most of Finland this weekend. “This weekend we’ll see beautiful spring

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