I had one tenant arrive at 00:40. I dropped that person off at our apartment, got a couple of hours sleep, as the next one arrived by the 06:15 train from Helsinki.
As I glanced through the Kaleva, our local newspaper, before leaving for the station, the headline was that we are having our coldest prolonged winter in the last 7 years.
The year we came to Finland, 1984, was really cold. In end January and early February we had a long spell of -30 C and lower.
Then for a long period the winters were milder. Or, was it that they appeared milder because of that first hard one?
Now, on our return from India, we have had a really long and cold winter, not just that it seems cold because we have returned from India.
But one must remember that in mid-October, when we were driving down to Helsinki to catch our flight to India, we already went through blizzard like conditions almost all the way through our 600 km journey.
I can certainly say that we have had a really long winter in Finland. And if, what the Kaleva writes is correct, we are certainly having a really cold one!
The temperature last night on the Russian border, just 200 km away, was -36.5 C last night! (We really do live just 200 km away from our mighty neighbours!!!)
We are certainly obsessed with the weather!
