Weather | The hot streak continues – now the more than 50-year-old record for hot days in September was broken

September the record for the hottest days was broken on Sunday. Sunday is the sixth hottest day in September, says the Finnish Meteorological Institute message service in X. The previous record was from 1968.

In the afternoon, the temperature has risen above the threshold, at least at Rauma’s Pyynpää measuring station, where the meter rose to 25.2 degrees.

On Sunday, the annual record for hot days was also broken for the fourth day in a row. There have been a total of 69 hot days this year, which is the most in the history of measurements.

From the beginning of the week the weather remains warm, but the meteorologist on duty Jari Tuovinen The Finnish Meteorological Institute estimates that the wind will keep 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 until the weekend.

“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.