Summer snow this morning in Jyväskylä

Scarves and gloves made their return this morning for many living in Finland. It has been a rather cold day today with temperatures hovering around only 5C for most of the day. It wasn't until after 6pm that the temperature climbed closer to 10C. While this kind of cold isn't unheard of for locations in Finland during the summer, it is quite unusual.

The cooler temperatures are the result of the combination of two low pressure systems, one situated just east of the Finnish-Russian border, the other in the Norwegian Sea, as well as a high pressure system north of Ireland. Together they are generating very cold northerly and northwesterly winds over most of the Nordic region.

In Finland's far north at Kilpisjärvi the temperature dipped to a low of -6.2C this morning. The all time record for June in Finland is only slightly lower at -7.0C, recorded back in 1962. At Jyväskylä Airport the temperature slowly declined yesterday evening from just above 10C at 9pm to just above 0C a bit before 6am today. There were sightings of snow flurries in Jyväskylä this morning, a rare event for summer here.

Snow falling in Jyväskylä's northern suburb of Palokka around 6am on June 17
Source: Liikkenne Virasto

The view slightly further north in Puuppola
Source: Liikkenne Virasto

Snow also fell in Kuokkala in Jyväskylä's south

This morning's low was the second lowest June temperature in the last 6 years. It dropped to 0.2C, quite close to the 0.0C recorded on June 8 in 2009. It was also the lowest since May 17. Today's high will probably be the coldest of the month. 2009 holds the record for the past 6 years for that statistic as well due to a 7.5C daily maximum on June 5 of that year.