While
people in the Southern and Central Europe are enjoying temperatures around 20
degrees here in Finland you still have to take your hat and gloves with you
whenever you leave the house. And even though also here the spring slowly
starts and you feel the sun getting stronger every day some days might still
surprise with snow. Finns call that “taka talvi”, the last attempts of the
winter to come back. With 0 to 8 degrees Helsinki is also still much colder
then Stockholm which is just a few hundred kilometers further west. The reason
for that is that the Gulf Stream doesn’t influence the climate in Finland as
strongly as it does in Norway and Sweden.
But not
just melting snow and ice show that the winter is over. Also the first blooming
flowers welcome the spring to the Finnish capital.
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