Weather | The rains continue, the wind gusts can even be dangerously strong

The weekend the weather continues to be windy and rainy. Especially on the night before Sunday, you should be prepared for dangerously strong wind gusts in connection with rain showers on the south and southwest coast of the country. The wind speed can be up to 20 meters per second in gusts.

The Finnish Meteorological Institute reports on this message service in X (formerly Twitter).

The worst gusts of wind are over during the night before Sunday. However, the winds will continue from the morning until Sunday afternoon, strong on the southern and southwestern coasts and in the central and eastern parts of the country. The wind speed in a gust can be 15 meters per second at that time.

in OstrobothniaCentral Ostrobothnia and the western parts of North Ostrobothnia are subject to a Flood Warning throughout the weekend.

The floods caused by the rains have caused about 40 flood prevention tasks for the North Ostrobothnia rescue service during the rest of the week, the rescue service announced on Saturday.

In Lapland, the traffic weather is bad and in some places dangerous due to snow and sleet during the weekend.

From the beginning of the week the weather is getting worse. The flood warning remains in place on Monday in Ostrobothnia, but otherwise weather warnings are no longer valid in land areas.

A strong wind warning is still valid in maritime areas on Monday. In addition, there is a warning of moderate waves in the sea areas of the west coast on Monday.