What a month, we have enjoyed of warm weather every day. The borderline between warm and hot is here 25°C / 77° F. In May we had 14 days over that borderline and it is all times record. Normally we don´t have so many hot days during the whole summer. Now it starts to be too dry, last rain was on the 3rd of May and the nature is suffering. We are told to have water bowls in our yards for birds, hedgehogs, for everybody.
During these first months of a year we have blue moments after a sunset. Everything is blue, the sky, snow, air. Today the sun rose 9.41 and sets 15.26. It is cold now and birds sit up on birches trying to catch every possible sun beam for warming.
Light green birches mean here so much. Dark and cold winter is behind. Warm days and white nights are here.
The Midnight Sun only shines above the Arctic Circle, but nights are white all over the country. In the northern parts of Finnish Lapland, the sun stays above the horizon for over 70 consecutive days. In a municipality of Utsjoki, the sun rose 17.5 and the next sunset is 27.7. We live in the western Finland and here the sun sets just for a while and rises again.
