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    Posted on February 23rd, 2010 chivacongelado 4 comments

     

    The current winter in Finland is the continuously coldest, snowiest I have ever experienced after 9 years here.  With temperatures averaging -10 (but reaching -27, without the windchill) and an amount of snowfall that is reaching a metre, the place looks and feels decidedly wintry.  I mean, there’s more snow here than in Lapland!

     

     

     

     

     

    Cross-country skiing in deep snow

    Cross-country skiing is possible in almost any sidewalk now, even after they clean them.

     

    Snowed-over cars

    There's a car somewhere under that pile of snow

     

     

     

     

     

    Ice panorama

    Icicles in a cave

     

    Slope in downtown

    Snowboarding slope in downtown

     

     

     

    Ski tracks in the bay

    Ski tracks on the snow over a frozen bay.

     

    Winter aerial panorama of Otsonlahti, a.k.a "The calm between snowstorms"

    Panorama of the bay between snowstorms

     

     

    Winter dusk

    Colours of dusk in winter

     

    Walking in the snowstorm

    The same spot as before, but in a snowstorm

     

     

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    4 responses to “Real winter in Finland”

    1. wow, y yo me quejaba del frio aqui :-S

      suerte mister

    2. that is a whole lot of snow!
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    3. Yay for a good El Nino Year! Here in California we have had our first good rain/snow year in sometime, glad to see the end of the drought.

      Enjoy the cross-country skiing.

      ;o)
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    4. @ceronne Y tanto. Aunque la verdad ya estamos acostumbrados.

      @Heather I hear we have more of the white stuff than Lapland. Is it really the case?

      @Ms. Jen Talking about drought, in Mexico last summer they were running out of water and this winter it’s flooding. Newsflash: over there winter is the dry season, summer the wet one…
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