Country experiences warmer weather in April

Station-specific temperature records were broken in several observation stations of the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) in April.

According to the statistics of the FMI , April in Finland was in many places 2 degrees Celsius to 3.5 degrees Celsius higher than the long-term average (1981–2010), said an official press release.

April was the warmest in a total of 13 measuring stations. The first runner up is year 1921, when April was the warmest in a total of nine stations.

Station-specific record highs were broken in a few long-term observation stations. In Utö island, for example, the measured temperature of 15.9 degrees Celsius exceeds the previous record by 1.4 degrees.

In Apukka, Rovaniemi, and Rankki, Kotka, new record high temperatures (17.2 and 18.6 degrees, respectively) were observed compared to temperatures measured since the 1930s.

In Kouvola, the temperature reached at least 20 degrees on five days in April, more frequently than in any observation station for at least 60 years, i.e. during the period of digitised data.

The month's highest temperature of 22.8°C was recorded at Artukka, Turku, on April 27 and the lowest temperature was minus 22.2°C, recorded in Kilpisjärvi.