Very hot for Santa as Lapland Bakls under Record Heatwave

“Make sure the reindeer has a lot of water – and don’t forget to drink even a glass every hour,” Santa presented a team busy in a record heatwave as Lapland in a record heat.

It is not every day that Father Christmas finds himself briefing its fantasy dwarf about the dangers of sunstroke, but in this summer northern Finland has seen the temperature at the end of the days of 30C.

For Santa, he will remain mostly indoors during the day – his bright red dress with fur is very hot.

“I am going out only after 18:00 to swim in the lake in the forest, when the weather has started cooling,” they say.

While Santa’s workshop in the city of Rovanimi is adopting cheerful flexibility, the unusually warm temperature in the Arctic is a serious matter – and scientific climate change is indicated as a criminal.

After unusually cold and rainy spring and early summer, the entire Finland – including the remote north of Lapland, 500 km (310 mi) above the Arctic circle – suddenly got stuck in continuous magic of hot weather.

Until July 25, the heatwave in Rovanimi will last for 15 days.

In Finland, a heatwave is defined as a period of at least three consecutive days where the daily maximum temperature is more than 25C.

Meteorologist Jakko Sevla of the Finnish meteorologist says that in Lapland, where the temperature of more than 30C is extremely rare, heatwaves are extraordinary like the present.

“The last time Finnish Lapland had a uniform long heatwave in 1972,” says Savel. But even it lasted only 12 to 14 days based on the exact location.

“That record is now broken.”

This is not just an individual, which has been gripped from the scorching temperature. Several other weather stations in Lapland have recorded their longest heatwaves since the records started.

The highest temperature of the heatwave, 31.7c, was measured at two places earlier this week, ylitornio and sodankylä. It is about 10C above the seasonal average for Lapland.

Heatwave has inspired a renewed concern about the fast pace of climate change in the Arctic, which is four to five times faster than the rest of the Earth.

Savela notes that this particular, long heatwave was not due to direct climate change. However, they say, “Climate change has been affected: without it, the temperature would have been low in the last two weeks”.

Professor Jeff Veller, Arctic Research Chair, at the University of Oulu University, agrees.

The incidence of heat and extreme weather equally in summer and winter has occurred so often that they can only be caused by basic changes in the climate system.

“All over the world, every day, climate change manifests in excessive heat and extreme rainfall,” Pro Weller says. “Fingerprint of climate change is on us.”

According to the United Nations inter-government panel on climate change, heatwaves are becoming more common due to human-borne climate change.

The extreme hot weather will be more often – and will become even more intense – as the planet continues to heat up, it is said.

The extreme heat is also affecting the famous deer of Lapland.

Christmas worldwide is celebrated as the sleeve-slab-molers on Christmas, the reindeer here moves freely and falls into the forests. But as they are surrounded by mosquitoes – those who thrive in hot weather – reindeer are now running in roads and villages in search of relief.

“The only option for deer will go to high, curved height, but the highest height in the finish lapland is only 1,000 meters (3,300 ft),” says pro weler.

He says that because in the future the Arctic will have more extreme and longer heatwaves, “Hot flocks can build a large barn to provide shade for their animals”.

These are not just Santa and her deer who are struggling. Lapland is traditionally known as a cool tourist destination – but this year, visitors are surprised.

“This is a super-hot here -30 C is killing me. I came to escape the heat,” says Sylvia, a tourist of Prague, who visits the Holiday Village of Santa in Rovanmi.

“I expected a very cold weather and packed the wrong clothes. I have only a small sleeve T-shirt-I am wearing it every day.”

It does not help that the days in Rovanimi are currently 20 hours, so the sun is still shining until 23:00 – maintaining the temperature longer.

Getting down in a shady patch in Santa Park is Edita from London, which hopes to find temperatures under 20C here. She says, “I can also step out of the shadow, I think I am on fire when I am doing it.”

She says, “Something similar is happening in the UK, but I am very surprised to see it in the Arctic Circle.” “Snow and ice is very integral for this amusement park and the whole of Lapland.”

Elina, a yogini working at Santa’s post office, also worries about the future of Lapland’s winter: “I wonder whether Heatwaves are new now.”

For Santa, every day of the year has an additional problem of wearing its heavy dress.

At the moment he only goes out in the evening when the wind starts to cool, otherwise he risks the risk of hetstroke in only 10 minutes.

“Of course a hot heat can be great for something, but I like cold and ice,” they say. “Winter is better.”