January was mild in the south and wintry in Lapland

According to the statistics of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the average temperature in January varied from +1 degrees Celsius in the southwestern archipelago to about –14 degrees Celsius in Northern Lapland. January was an unusually mild month in the south of the country and in places in the centre, which means that such high temperatures are recorded in January less often than once every ten years on average. Elsewhere in the country, the average temperatures were close to or slightly above the long-term average. The deviation from the long-term temperature norm ranged from approximately +3.5 degrees in Southern Finland to close to –1 degree in Lapland.