This is how the trail of the Kesängi avalanche looks like — meteorologist explains why snow masses are now rumbling

There have been several news reports this week about avalanches from Lapland in Finland, Sweden and Norway. At worst, people have died or gone missing, at best no one was left under the avalanche.

The rescue service responded to Kilpisjärvi with several units just before 2 p.m. An hour and a half later, an avalanche alarm was received on the Kesänkitunturi mountain in Kolari.

An avalanche was detected on Kesänkitunturi in Äkäslompolo. The Lapland Rescue Service says that no people have been trapped under the snow in the avalanche on Kesänkitunturi in Äkäslompolo. The rescue service received a report of an avalanche on Kesänkitunturi near Ylläs after 3 p.m. According to the report, a skier's ascent track went down next to the avalanche.