Friday, July 30, 2010

Heat record in Finland since weather recording started 1914!

Oh-hoh! 37,2 Centigrades / 99 F in Joensuu (Estern Finland) yesterday marked an all-time record high for Finnland, since the weather started to be recorded in 1914. Do you remember that I wrote one day about the stereotype, that most people think that it's always cold and dark in Finland?! Hah! But... too hot for me, my friends.

Ok, I am not in Joensuu (the aborigines say "Joe" for Joensuu) - I am in Oulu ("Paskakaupunki" *haha*) - but it was almost as hot as in Joe yesterday. Look in my face and you get the point... sweating like a pig. I was at the Kempele track- and field stadium in the afternoon yesterday with some colleagues to do some intervall running session, for some testing... great idea. The stadium (see the picture) is situated in a kind of bowl and the heat was just concentrating in this heat-bowl with the dark red running track... We were running 1000m intervals and I have to say... it hurt. But it was fun ;-)

Due to the heat I decided to do my running very early, before work today. I was running from 6.45 to 08.00 am - a good decision, as it was already 23 Centigrade at this early stage...

Now weekend ahead. Let's see what happens, depending a lot on the weather. A great weekend to all of you out there!

Sweating J

2 comments:

  1. Hi Jan,

    are you sure that you are in Finland and not in Portugal to have this weather???lol

    pedro

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  2. Hi Pedro, definetely yes - that was in Finland. Unbelievably hot... but the next winter will come soon :-)

    Bom dia, Jan

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