Clear News | Monday 29.6.2026

Alarm devices. Urban meadows. Eeva Kilpi. Weather forecast.

Home alarm devices

First, news about home alarm systems and insurance.

Home alarm systems are sold a lot in the summer.

This is the control room of the security company Verisure in Helsinki.

The control room receives over 300,000 alarms per year.

Alarms are triggered by burglaries and fires, for example.

Home alarm systems are sold a lot in the summer.

Some insurance companies offer discounts on insurance premiums or deductibles if the home has alarm systems.

Financial sector security expert Aku Pänkäläinen says that alarm systems reduce damage.

For example, thieves avoid a house with an alarm system.

(Security expert Aku Pänkäläinen:) “Clearly, a home with alarm devices, and stickers outside to inform potential perpetrators, will definitely avoid that location.”

Urban meadows

Now for some news about fighting the heat.

The heat in cities can be reduced with meadows.

It has been really hot in many European countries in recent days.

The temperature has been as high as 40 degrees in some places.

In the German capital, Berlin, people are fighting the heat in meadows.

For example, here there was a lawn last summer. Now there is a meadow instead of the lawn.

Director of Green Areas Jochen Flenker says that a meadow stays cooler than a low lawn.

The meadow is also beneficial for insects.

The heat in cities can be reduced with meadows.

At the same time, biodiversity will improve.

Eve Kilpi

Finally, some news about literature.

Author Eeva Kilpi has died. Kilpi was 98 years old.

Kilpi wrote poems and novels and short stories.

Kilpi was born in Karelia in 1928.

Kilpi’s family had to leave Karelia when the Winter War broke out. Kilpi wrote a lot about the home he left behind in Karelia.

Writer Eeva Kilpi has died.

Kilpi also wrote about nature and animals and the position of women.

Tuesday weather

Still a weather forecast.

On Tuesday, the weather will be mainly cloudy and also largely sunny.

There will be occasional clouds in the east and north and showers in places.

In the north, the temperature is around 15 degrees.

It is hot in the south, meaning the temperature rises above 25 degrees.