Cool in Jyväskylä, mild in Sydney

The approaching winter in Jyväskylä has been better felt in the last few days. Despite temperatures rising to 2.5C on Friday after Thursday's snow, it has been cooler since then. I was in Helsinki since Thursday evening, but based on my observations after coming back to Jyväskylä yesterday it was rather wet here on Friday. There is a small layer of ice making walking in the centre of town a challenge. A fresh sprinkling of snow in the early hours of Sunday have turned the city white though.

Beautiful clear skies arrived yesterday morning and have led to lower temperatures. Temperatures for the whole day yesterday stayed below zero. This was the first day in 8 months that that had happened. The daily minimum of -7.6C was also the coldest temperature since April 11. Forecasts currently predict -8C overnight, but I wouldn't be surprised to see temperatures briefly drop below -10C.

Sun setting over Jyväsjärvi

Ice is starting to appear in Jyväsjärvi

The sun shining on buildings in Jyväskylä Centre and Lutakko

The average maximum for November in Sydney continues to be lower than both September and October with less than a week remaining. Since Thursday the daily maximums in Sydney have slowly been decreasing. The average maximum is currently 24.8C after it reached only 22.0C today. This is still above the long term average of 24.0C though, further highlighting how warm September and October actually were.

The highest monthly minimum set last Thursday was short-lived with the temperature on Friday dropping only as far as 20.1C. As the end of the month draws near the average minimum is still the lowest in the period since 2009.

Southerly winds were strong this evening, reaching a maximum gust of 78km/h after 5:30pm. This matches the highest gust for the month which was recorded on Friday. A bit more than 10mm of rain also fell in the few days since my last post on Thursday, pushing the monthly total to 171.4mm. At least another 0.4mm is to be added from the current 24 hours to 9am period also.