The last couple of days in Finland have been unusually warm. As mentioned in my last post, the low pressure system in the Norwegian Sea has been pushing warm and moist air across the Nordic region, driving up temperatures and bringing areas of rain.
Yesterday saw Finland broke its 'end of October' heat record. As this Yle article explains, a measurement of 14.2C was recorded in Kokemäki, a town slightly inland and south east of the west coast town of Pori. The previous record was from October 26 1975; a 14.1C maximum recorded in Jomala on the Åland Islands.
Jyväskylä has also seen very warm temperatures this week. After climbing above 10C on Monday, they jumped 2C higher to 12.0C on the 28th. Temperatures still hovered just under 12C in the early hours of today, giving a top of 11.8C.
Of the past six years, this is the latest time in the year for such warm weather. In the five years between 2009 and 2013, the dates for the last time a maximum at 12C or above was recorded range from September 27 (2009) to October 9 (2013). For further comparison, October 29 in 2009 and 2012 recorded daily maximums of 0.0C and 0.3C respectively.
The warmth on Tuesday wasn't enough to topple October 9's 12.9C maximum as the highest recorded this month. It was, however, the sixth day above 10C. Today made it seven above the mark, the equal second highest number of such a recording in the past six Octobers.
Jyväskylä saw its fifth straight day of rain today as well. Since Saturday October 25 and up until 10pm tonight, a total of 24.8mm has been recorded at Tikkakoski. There were 19 consecutive hours of precipitation recorded yesterday, but the daily total only reached 4.0mm. Persistent drizzle meant that not one hourly total in those 19 hours exceeded 0.5mm. Like Monday, skies cleared in the evening, and bright sun was even seen this morning before more rain arrived just before 2pm.
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