Jyväskylä turns white again, more storms for Sydney

Jyväskylä woke up to the sight of white this morning. Like the revised forecasts predicted, Jyväskylä avoided most of the snow that fell in Finland yesterday.

The south of the country received decent falls. It fell as rain and wet snow early, but turned to snow later in the day. A bit over 10cm was recorded in some places like Lahti and around Helsinki. Jyväskylä didn't receive any snow until later in the night. A depth of 4cm was the measurement at Tikkakoski Airport this morning.

Also as predicted, temperatures have been much lower than previous weeks. It dipped to -5.0C this morning, the coldest temperature since February 26, two and a half weeks ago. Yesterday got to 3.4C, but it doesn't look like it'll go above 1C for possibly the next week.

Kauppakatu, Jyväskylä on the morning of March 16

There has been plenty of storm activity around New South Wales in the past few days. A brief but intense storm hit Sydney yesterday afternoon and a smaller one hit today. Sydney Airport recorded 9.6mm in about 30 minutes from 5:20pm yesterday. At Sydney Olympic Park 16.2mm fell in a similar time frame. Lightning interrupted the AFL game there as it passed through the area.

Strong and localised wind gusts accompanied the storm also. The weather station at Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour recorded a wind gust of 91km/h just after 5:30pm.

Storm front in Sydney on March 15
Source: User VeinyPickle, Reddit

Today's rain was not as intense as yesterday. It hit earlier in the day also. After hitting a maximum of 29.3C just after 11:30am, the reading at midday at the Airport was 28.0C. By 12:45pm though, it had dropped to 20.8C. A total of 3.8mm was recorded. Sydney Olympic Park again received one of the highest totals in the Sydney region with 7.4mm. Temperatures climbed again in the late afternoon around the city; it read 27.2C at the Airport at 5:30pm.

The next few days in Sydney look to be quite good. Sunny and warm conditions are expected.