There were a total of 50 'heatwave' days in Finland this summer, when the temperature rose to above 25 degrees Celsius.

June and July have been unusually warm in Finland. 

The average temperature throughout the country in June was 16.5 degrees, beating the previous high of 16.2 degrees set in 1953.

An exceptionally warm air current from the southeast has kept days and nights unseasonably mild in southern and central Finland since last week. Meanwhile the north of the country has been shivering with rain and temperatures in the single digits. The highest reading in decades was recorded in Kokemäki, southwest Finland.

Finland is continuing to heat up this summer - and nearing the all-time heat record for June.

It was the hottest summer in the 174-year history of weather records in Helsinki, and the second hottest in the 118-year history of the weather station in Sodankylä, Lapland.