Warmest Finnish December Ever Measured

Still no snow in Helsinki. Helsingin Sanomat reports that last December was the warmest ever measured in this country.

Average temperatures were 6 to 8 degrees above the thirty year December average.

In current climate conditions, a December this warm would be expected to occur just once or twice in a millennium. But given the accelerating global warming, winter temperatures this high might be commonplace by the end of the century, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute.