I'm having a quizz on European weather. If you wanted a holiday where you're guaranteed a sun-tan and hot weather, where would you choose? Corfu? The Adriatic? The Costa del Sol? Lisbon? Note the UK and Sitzerland are not the list: the latter struggled to reach 20C while we there under persistent cloud; and the altitude rules a lot of Switzerland out of contention.
I bet you wouldn't add Helsinki to the list - it's roughly 60 degrees N. I certainly would be among you until I experienced yesterday and knowing what is forecast for today and tomorrow. Tomorrow, for example, the forecast is for 34C! This is close to the warmest temperature I've experienced on this trip. You could possibly do better than Helsinki in Finland in the these stakes. How about cities close to 70 degrees N, where there will be temperatures in the low 20s. This is certainly better than most of England. And they have heaps of sunshine - getting on for 18/19 hours per day.
Of course, the whole situation is controlled by events in Russia where Moscow has almost reached 40C and a large part of the country is in drought. That's one thing the Finns don't have to worry about. The country is afloat on water.
If there are spelling mistakes here it's because (a) I'm in a hurry to go to breakfast; and (b) the dictionary attached to my computer is Finnish.
AS
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