Weather|According to forecasts, the highest temperature of the current summer will also be new this week.
Sunny and dusty weather continues across much of the country today.
Weather service company Forecan by the temperature can rise to close to 30 degrees during the day in the southern and central parts of the country.
In northern Ostrobothnia, Kainuu and southern Lapland, the temperatures are on either side of twenty degrees. Further north in Lapland, temperatures remain around 10–20 degrees.
Single showers can occur during the day in the central parts of the country and in Lapland. In Lapland, there can also be thunder during rain showers.
The wildfire warning is from the Finnish Meteorological Institute by valid throughout the country.
May has been hot in Finland so far.
The Meteorological Institute said on Sunday message service in X, that eleven hot days have been measured in May. During the statistics that started in 1961, the most hot days have been measured in May in 2018. Then there were fourteen hot days in May in total.
“The weather continues to be hot, so it is possible that that record will be broken,” the Finnish Meteorological Institute wrote.
Foreca also promises sweaty temperatures for Tuesday and Wednesday. On Wednesday, the limit of up to 30 degrees may be broken locally.
The highest temperature of the current summer so far has been 28.8 degrees measured in Salo last Saturday.
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