Lapland has been blanketed in snow over the past couple of days, as a low pressure zone dumped sleet and snow in the north.
Earlier this week the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) forecast wintry conditions that would bring snow and sleet to Finland’s far north.
On Thursday night temperatures in Lapland fell below zero in many areas. The mercury fell to -0.6 degrees in Näkkäla in Enontekiö, while a reading of -0.5 degrees was recorded in Kilpisjärvi in Finland’s northwestern arm.
Residents of southern Lapland also felt the chill, temperatures registered -0.5 degrees Thursday night.
On Wednesday night snow covered fells in Saariselkä in the far north. The FMI says the freak snowfall will be a passing phenomenon as conditions are due to warm up over the weekend.
http://yle.fi/uutiset/cold_snap_chills_summer_in_lapland/6199852
Thanks to Andrew L. for this link
“I concur with the recent article about a cold June in Sweden,” says Andrew. “ Finland has been equally cold, and recently there has been snow in Lapland, in late June!”
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My friend from southern Finland (Raisio) said that they “are still waiting for real summer weather” with daytime temperatures below +20, and at night below
+15.
all those “climate refugees” they were raving up…may well turn out to be the 1st world nthn folks, not 3rd world tropicals..
Aus will have cruise ships instead of wooden junks arriving for a warm spot to live thanks..
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There is a nice picture taken 29th of June. It is taken in Värriö-area in NE-Finland. Snow covered fells of Saariselkä in the horizon.
Snowing in June in Lapland is not a sensation, although in recent years it has been rearer than in the past. For example on 24th of June in 1977 there was 25 centimetres of snow in Värriö-area. Fells of Saariselkä were also snow covered back then.
On the evening news on 27th/28th of June, there was a story how Lapland is going to warm 5-8 centigrades by the year 2100. After that story a meteorologist appeared in the screen warning hazardous driving conditions in part of Lapland because of snow and sleet. I found that very entertaining.
In my opinion the cold air coming out of the arctic affecting Finland is part of a wider global cooling down. As the cold air slides out of the arctic it, being relatively heavy air, brings areas of high air pressure, which give rise to clear sky. Such clear sky allows the sunlight to penetrate to the ground, thus giving rise to times of hot weather at this time of the year. But, despite the heat wave affecting certain parts, I advise people to not be taken off their guard, because in just a few more weeks the summer will already be giving way to the autumn, which will then lead to another winter. I predict that this coming winter will be severe. This will be as a consquence of there being [despite the fact that we are in a sunspot maximum] fewer sunspots. Fewer sunspots bring about the collapse of the heliospheric bubble, which is thus allowing greater amounts of cosmic radiation to reach the Earth. COSMIC RAY INDUCTION then creates greater amounts of mist and fog and haze, especially at high altitude and high latitudes, which block out sunlight. Cosmic ray energy magnetizes the water molecules that are in the air, thus drawing them togeter to form droplets and snow crystals that would other wise not exist. Thus the world has been cooling down for some years already and is sure to get colder and colder still. Especially since cosmic ray induction [in my opinion] is driving earthquakes and volcano’s too. Just one really big volcano erupting can tip the climate over the edge into the next Ice Age. A super volcano eruption is not out of the question. Indeed probably very likely. The previous super volcano erupted in Mount Toba in Sumatra 74,000 years ago. Another super volcano eruption is now believed to have occurred approximately 35,000 years ago in Italy around Mount Vesuvius near to Napoli. Such volcanic eruptions will definitely trigger the next great Ice Age. It will happen suddenly and we will get very little warning. Indeed in my opinion no warning signs what so ever !