Firefighters dealt with about 20 blazes on Sunday alone, as dry conditions and strong winds heighten risks of forest and brush fires getting out of control.

The oval ice formations created by wave action were piled up on a Hailuoto beach.

Northern Finland was illuminated by a blazing fireball on Thursday night, which experts said was either a meteor or space trash.

Meteorologist Niko Tollman of the Finnish Meteorology Institute confirms that counting up the number of stormy days this past month made January one of the windiest first months of the year over sea areas since 1994.