The warmest springtime temperature of the year so far is 14.1 degrees Celsius, and fires are popping up around the country.
The state rail company VR has said that it will substitute buses on some of the cancelled rail trips.
In the frigid waters of the Gulf of Finland, cyanobacteria has been observed for the first time during the winter months.
Sightings of great egrets have been reported for decades, but sightings this summer confirm the first time the species has nested in Finland.
With current tropical conditions set to continue for another week, the situation is not likely to improve before the end of July or early August.
Not only is pollen is beginning to spread, but road gravel dust and studded tyres grinding the tarmac can also cause particulates that cause breathing difficulties. There are a few ways to deal with the dust, however.
Sea ice around Helsinki becomes more precarious as spring draws near.
The Finnish researcher says the source of southern Finland's unusually slippery roads and messy snow this winter is very likely due to warm air from the sea.
Rain and rising temperatures have brought warnings of extremely slippery conditions in other areas.
Wildlife authorities say that a new wolf pack has established a territory in Raseborg, but that its future is in doubt after the apparent shooting of its alpha male. Hunters had been issued with a special permit to shoot a young male.
Why are barnacle geese and seagulls dying by the dozens in Helsinki and not Turku? The birds have been dying in droves off the coast of Helsinki, and in the islands off coastal cities nearby as far out as Inkoo in the west and Porvoo in the east. The phenomenon was first reported on Thursday by Helsingin Sanomat.
High winds blasted across south-western Finland Friday, cutting electricity to customers. The rare June storm peaked on Friday afternoon.
The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) has warned that the Gulf of Finland faces the risk of earlier and larger than usual blue-green algae blooms this summer – weather permitting. The environment agency says high levels of phosphorous have the potential to feed abundant toxic algal growths.
As many people resident in Finland already know, May was an exceptionally cold month. According to the Finnish Meteorological Institute FMI, the last time May daytime temperatures were this low was in 1969.
Spring - or rather thermal spring - could be arriving to Finland as early as this week in southern and western areas.
In Finland nothing means spring is around the corner more in the south than news that the brown bears at Helsinkis Korkeasaari Zoo have woken from their winters sleep. Zoo employees say the 16 and 11-year-old females hibernation is increasingly cut shorter as the years pass.
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