Sydney Airport's week long run of 25C+ temperatures ended today. Only just though; it was 24.9C at 3:25pm. Observatory Hill was slightly warmer, reaching 26.7C, making today the 8th day in a row above 25C. For the Airport, which is more vulnerable to southerly winds, the 7 day run above 25C was the longest since the 9 day period between March 20 and 28.
Moderate southerly winds kept temperatures low for most of the day with the stronger gusts earlier in the morning. While it was a little cooler, the predicted showers stayed away from most parts of the city. The Blue Mountains and locations on the coast near Wollongong and further south received the biggest falls.
It's much cooler in Finland after a few warm days. The temperature in Jyväskylä just dropped below -11C. It had been hovering just above -10C for 3-4 hours after steadily declining from around -2C since 3pm yesterday. It had dropped to -5.5C by midnight.
During early yesterday morning the storm named Seija marched east through the lower half of Finland. The highest recorded gusts weren't quite as strong as those from Eino in November, but they were still strong enough to cut power and bring down trees. Locations in the south and west were worst affected. 70,000 homes were still without power yesterday evening.
Helsinki-Vantaa Airport recorded the strongest gust for an inland location; 29.8m/s (107km/h). For coastal areas, Kaskinen, a small town on the west coast, experienced an average wind speed over 10 minutes of 30.7m/s around 3am.
Jyväskylä also experienced strong winds briefly yesterday morning. The strongest winds hit just before 6am. I saw a wind gust recording of 19m/s around 8am, but from looking at the average wind speeds during those hours, it's likely that the highest gust already occurred around 6am.
It's hard to believe now that there had been such strong winds because, in addition to the clear skies, it's dead calm.
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