Finns shiver while Alaskans warm up

Temperatures in Finland have been 4 ° C to 6 ° C cooler than the average temperatures recorded from 1971 to 2000. The first week of 2003 was, in fact, the coldest ever recorded in the past 40 years in Finland, and since then temperatures have been running as low as – 42 ° C.

Meanwhile, Alaska’s temperature has risen by an average of 1.5 ° C since 1971. The average temperature in Barrow, Alaska, has gone up by more than 2 ° C in the past 30 years, with the highest temperature rise noted in the spring months.