Finland recorded its warmest temperature of the year so far on Wednesday when a weather station near the west coast city of Rauma registered a reading of 22.9 degrees Celsius.
It was unseasonably warm along much of the southwest and west coast on Wednesday. Temperatures in Turku climbed to a high of 21.9 degrees Celsius, while the mercury rose to 21.5 degrees in Pori.
According to Yle meteorologist Aleksi Lohtander, the sunshine and warm temperatures will continue into the beginning of the Easter weekend, with readings of 23 degrees Celsius expected in the south on Good Friday.
However, Lohtander added that conditions are likely to turn milder from Saturday onwards, with cooler and cloudier weather forecast for Saturday and Easter Sunday.
Despite the unseasonably high temperatures recorded on Wednesday and forecast for Friday, it remains unlikely that the highest temperature ever recorded in Finland during the month of April will be beaten.
That record was set in the city of Jyväskylä in April 1921, when a temperature of 25.5 degrees was registered.
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