Weather|There have already been 68 hot days this year, which is the highest number in the history of measurements. The meteorologist on duty, Jari Tuovinen, estimates that the probability of breaking the light line today, Sunday, is more than 50 percent.
If The temperature limit is broken in Finland today, which would mean that the hottest September in the history of measurements is underway.
The September hot day record from 1968 was set aside yesterday, when there were already five September hot days this year. Unlike the previous days, however, the light limit was only broken at one measuring station. In Salon Kärkä, the temperature reached 25.9 degrees at its highest.
Meteorologist on duty Jari Tuovinen estimated to STT yesterday that the probability of breaking the light line today, Sunday, is more than 50 percent.
According to Tuovinen, there is a potential for breaking the light line in a wider area today than yesterday. Most likely, the heat wave will break in southern and western Finland in the area from southwestern Finland to central Ostrobothnia, the meteorologist estimates. On the southern coast, the wind makes sure that the light line is not disturbed.
In the whole country up to Northern Lapland, there is a forecast of a rainy day and temperatures of at least 20 degrees.
Yesterday, the annual record of hot days was broken for the third day in a row. Including yesterday, there have been 68 hot days this year.
From the beginning of the week the weather remains warm, but according to Tuovinen, the wind keeps the temperatures below the temperature limit. In the middle of the week, there will be slightly cooler days and possibly also rain.
However, the hot days may not end this weekend either.
“It is also possible that the heat limit will be broken here next weekend as well. The high pressure that moved to the eastern side of Finland from the beginning of the week would seem to try to come back here in the western direction,” Tuovinen said.
Before this year, the annual record of hot days, which has been valid for quite a long time, was set in 2002. At that time, the heat was measured on 65 days.
The Finnish Meteorological Institute’s comparable heat statistics start from 1961.
The average temperature of the past summer in Finland corresponds According to the Finnish Meteorological Institute average summer temperature record of 1937. Last summer, i.e. June–August, the average temperature in all of Finland was 16.2 degrees.
Peer-reviewed by researchers from the Institute of Meteorology and the University of Helsinki method according to the impact of climate change on temperatures has been significant in both northern and southern Finland.
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