Summer 2015 has been unseasonably cold and rainy in Finland, while further afield in southern and central Europe the weather has been unusually dry.
Asko Hutila from the Finnish Meteorological Institute says that rains, which are in limited supply on the planet, operate on certain principles of cyclicism that makes wet and arid conditions a 'tit for tat' situation.
But those rare Finnish rains haven't been divided up equally throughout the country. North Ostrobothnia has seen the most unusual amounts of rain – an anomaly that only occurs a few times a century – while western Finland and other regions of the country have also been wetter than on average.
"Throughout Europe, the weather has been dominated by low pressure systems," Hutila says. "Broad high pressure fronts have not been able to come this far: warm air masses have been trying to get in, but failing."
At the same time, North Karelia and North Lapland have seen unusually low amounts of rain.