Changeable and unstable weather is set to continue throughout the midsummer weekend.
On Saturday, blustery showers continued to spread across the south and centre of the country, and will will spread out to the west tomorrow. Elsewhere the forecast shows the country will remain largely dry and sunny, with temperatures warming up towards the 20 degree mark.
But while this year’s midsummer weekend has proven warmer in many places than 2014, which was in turn colder than the previous year’s Christmas eve, there have been wide temperature differences across the country.
In the north of the country on Saturday, conditions remained sunny. Meanwhile in Tohmajärvi, eastern Finland, the third highest temperature of the summer so far was recorded, at 22.1 degrees.
Last week 24.9 degrees were measured in Kouvola in the south, and 23.3 in Nurmijärvi, just outside Helsinki.
Elsewhere, though, the air was much colder. ”Showers are blowing in from the Baltic Sea across south and western Finland, and in these areas the temperature is staying below 15 degrees C,” Yle meteorologist Matti Huutonen says.
The mix of warm and cold fronts is a recipe for stormy weather, and Kymenlaakso, Karjala and south Savo can expect hailstorms, thunder and lightning as the weekend goes on.
Western and central Finland are also in line for stormy conditions, Huutonen says.