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Originally Posted by Spider Crusoe
It can get fairly cold, but I don't remember the numbers. Think about Russian cities at the same latitude as Helsingki, and you'll get an idea.
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Actually it doesn't really work that way. The Gulf Stream makes Finland (and Scandinavia as a whole) warmer than inland Russia. The winters in Moscow are probably colder than in Southern Finland although it's more to the north.
I think the record in the north part of the country is -52,5 degrees Celsius (that's ****ing cold people), but where I live in Åbo (Turku in Finnish, was mentioned in the article btw) it can maybe go down to -30 degrees, but these days (with the green house effect and everything) it doesn't happen very often and if it does only for a few days. Usually it's around 0 - -10 degrees during winter. You might think it's cold, but man is it beautiful when there's snow everywhere.
This is from the river Aura in Åbo (Turku).
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Finnish is the main language. Swedish is also speaken there, but I don't know what percentage of people know it.
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Around 6% have Swedish as their native language. As for how many Finns can speak Swedish probably quite many, but with varying results.
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Spider Crusoe: Where in Finland did you live when you lived here?
