An intense heat dome has swelled over Scandinavia, pushing temperatures more than 10 degrees above normal and spurring some of the region’s hottest weather ever recorded. Even as far north as the Arctic Circle, the mercury has come close to 32 C.

Normally, temperatures in Scandinavia during July warm to a comfortable 15 to 20. This week, they have soared into the mid-20s to lower 30s C.

Since Monday, several locations have approached or surpassed their highest temperatures observed any day or month of the year. They include:

In central Norway,Trondheim Airport hit 32.4 C on Monday, an all-time record.

Snasa hit 31.6 C on Monday, an all-time record.

Namsos hit 32.4 C Monday, just 0.4 degrees below its all-time record from 2014.

In southern Finland, Turku hit 33.3 C on Tuesday, the highest temperature since 1914 when it reached 35.9 C. Helsinki witnessed one of its hottest two-day periods on record on Sunday and Monday.

In southern Sweden, Uppsala hit 34.4 C on Monday, its highest temperature since 1975.

French meteorologist Etienne Kapikian, who compiled many of these hot weather extremes, tweeted Tuesday’s heat was particularly widespread throughout Finland, where temperatures were at least 30 C across much of the country, from south to north.

To the west, Sweden’s national weather agency issued a rare heat warning for temperatures forecast to reach at least 30 C five days straight in its central region, according to The Local. This same news organization reported the high temperatures have likely intensified a “historic wildfire outbreak” afflicting the country.

The heat dome responsible for the sweltering temperatures is predicted to only very slowly drift eastward over the next several days.

“The heat is here to stay for a while,” said meteorologist Joonas Koskela, from the Finnish news organization Yle.

Scandinavia is the latest region of the Northern Hemisphere to deal with exceptionally hot weather this summer. As has been previously reported, new all-time heat records have been set on every continent, including:

In North America: Multiple locations in Southern California; Denver; Montreal; Mount Washington, New Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont.

In Europe: Glasgow, Scotland; Shannon, Ireland; Belfast and Castlederg, Northern Island.

In Eurasia: Multiple locations in central and east Russia; Tbilisi, Georgia; and Yerevan, Armenia.

In the Middle East: Quriyat, Oman, which posted the world’s hottest low temperature ever recorded on June 28: 42.6 C.

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In Africa: Ouargla, Algeria, which may have posted the highest temperature in Algeria and the entire African continent on July 5: 51.3 C.

In Asia: Taiwan may have posted its highest temperature on record as well as multiple locations in Japan.

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