Warm weather favoured weekend’s graduation celebrations
May temperature record from 1995 remains unbroken, but Southern Finland basks in 27°C sunshine
Much of Finland basked in warm sunshine over the weekend, with the mercury climbing widely to 27-28 degrees Celsius. The country’s high of 28.8°C was measured in Puumala and in Lammi, near Hämeenlinna on Sunday afternoon.
Many other locations also enjoyed temperatures above 28°C, and even in Sodankylä in Central Lapland the mercury managed to climb to 25 degrees Celsius, enough to merit "warm day" status hereabouts.
However, the all-time heatwave record for May remained untouched. In 1995 a temperature of 31°C was measured in Lapinjärvi. Such hot weather is normally experienced in May only a couple of times a decade.
The weather is expected to cool down again early on this week. On Monday the warm weather will still linger on in inland locations in the South of Finland, where temperatures over 25°C are expected to continue. In the north, however, the temperature will already drop below 20 degrees.
On Tuesday the high pressure system will be divided into two parts moving towards east and west, and between them cooler air will flow in from the Arctic Ocean.
The warm weather was a welcome visitor to high school students’ graduation celebrations over the weekend.
The police - who would probably prefer a steady drizzle to cool people down - had their hands full of work, especially in the larger cities. Primarily the celebrations went off peacefully nonetheless, even if alcohol was consumed in considerable quantities.
For example in the technology city of Oulu no more reports of an offence were filed with the police than on a normal weekend.
In Tampere some fines were imposed, and a couple of assaults were dealt with.
In Jyväskylä several people sustained injuries when an individual equipped with a knuckleduster started delivering blows in a crowd. The police apprehended a suspect.
Links:
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Helsingin Sanomat
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Warm weather favoured weekend’s graduation celebrations
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