Three fierce storms have pummelled Finland in the last two months. Finnish "weather prophet" Eero Isokääntä doesn’t remember three winter storms hitting so close to each other before in his lifetime.
"There’s an old saying that the third storm calms things and ushers in the real winter. There’s a lot of truth in those old sayings,” says Isokääntä, who has since 1967 specialised in predicting the weather from signs he sees in the sky, nature and the northern lights.
He doesn’t believe that storms like Oskari, Eino or Seija will be seen anymore this winter. Together with his son, he has examined the ciphers of the galaxy carefully and come up with forecasts for the coming winter months.
January will be spotty, with periods of snow and thawing temperatures interchanged. He claims that the moon’s points aren’t standing, so there won’t be many freezing temperatures all winter.
Summer announced with thunder
Isokääntä predicts there won’t be flooding in the spring, as the wind will wipe any winter snow away. Next summer, on the other hand, will begin with a rollicking round of thunderstorms. After Midsummer, the weather will once again be unpredictable, but he hopes the summer won’t be too stormy.