The mercury hit 16.6 degrees C at Mariehamn airport on Friday, beating Tuesday’s record-breaking high of 14.7 C in Pori.
An exceptionally warm air current from the southeast has kept days and nights unseasonably mild in southern and central Finland since last week. Meanwhile the north of the country has been shivering with rain and temperatures in the single digits. The highest reading in decades was recorded in Kokemäki, southwest Finland.
Flocks of whooper swans have been grazing in a field in southwestern Finland, although these swans don't typically return to Finland until March or April, according to Finland’s environment administration.
Despite recent rain, groundwater levels remain at near-record lows. Markku Rantti, head of the local village association, says some wells in the area only have about 20 cm of water at the bottom.
Gusty winds and precipitation began pounding Finland from the southwest on Wednesday morning.
Hundreds of ice balls could be seen floating on the beach at Ohtakari island in Finland’s Bay of Bothnia.
The warmest springtime temperature of the year so far is 14.1 degrees Celsius, and fires are popping up around the country.
Potentially harmful blue-green algae has increased in lakes over the past week.
Sixty-three endangered Saimaa ringed seal pups were found during the early spring count carried out by forestry workers and volunteers.
The condition of the lake isn’t very good and it has the typical problems with high nutrient levels and depleted oxygen.
The northwest coastal city of Oulu was one of several that had over 30-degree Celsius temperatures on Friday.
There are unusually low numbers of mosquitoes throughout Finland this sweltering summer – and likely fewer than usual next year as well.
In the last 20 years a large number of new butterfly species have made Finland their home.
As many allergy-sufferers across Finland may have already suspected, birch pollen levels were very high on Wednesday, according to the University of Turku.
The Central Finland town of Jyväskylä has had a sum total of 4.5 hours of sunshine so far in November.
Finland is emerging from a deep freeze, giving way to milder temperatures and more snow. On Saturday three people in Helsinki fell through the ice at two different locations within the same 15-minute period.
An extended period of hot, dry weather is affecting the harvest outlook and impacting grain growth. Even the wild berry season, which was off to a good start, may be in peril.
In Northern Ostrobothnia the floods are rising faster, and local emergency services have elicited the help of the military as a precaution, in case some of the ice dams in the riverland should need to be detonated.
Mild, wet weather has raised water levels in rivers and lakes around the country.
Trees across the region were torn down by the stormy gusts, falling on houses, cars and power lines.
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