Finland passes 30°C for first time this year. Finland rarely records temperatures above 30°C in May. The latest reading arrived during an early period of summer-like weather that has affected large parts of northern and eastern Europe in recent days.

Finland recorded its first temperature above 30°C this year on Wednesday after thermometers reached 30.2°C in the eastern municipality of Ilomantsi, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

The reading came from the Mekrijärvi weather station in North Karelia and marked one of the earliest occasions on record that temperatures in Finland have crossed the 30-degree threshold.

The Finnish Meteorological Institute said only two years, 2014 and 2021, had seen temperatures exceed 30°C earlier than this year.