Climate of the Nordic countries

The climate of the Nordic countries is that of a region in Northern Europe that consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland.

[2] Finnish areas north of the Arctic Circle rarely see the sun rise, due to the natural phenomenon of the polar night.

Also, cold air originating from Canada, warms rapidly over the ocean, forming thunderclouds.

Due to its northern location, there is almost no darkness in June and July in the north, reaching as far south as Trondheim.

A July 2006 study completed by "The Journal of Climate", determined that the melting of Greenland's ice sheets was the single largest contributor to global sea level rise.

[11] The temperatures from the year 2000 to the present have caused several very large glaciers that had long been stable, to begin to melt away.

Satellite images and aerial photographs from the 1950s and 1970s show that the front of the glacier had remained in the same place for decades.

The glacier's ice tongue began to break apart in 2000, leading to almost complete disintegration in 2003, while the retreat rate doubled to over 30 m (98 ft) per day.

[13] In the summer of 2005, the island of Uunartoq Qeqertoq was discovered off the eastern central coast of Greenland.