The frost limit for going to school is only considered by municipality at -30/-35 degrees. The municipalities themselves determine at their own discretion what constitutes severe frost. When it's colder than -15 degrees below zero, we stay inside during the breaks. The lesson schedules are designed so that you don't have to be outside in the coldest time, i.e. in the morning. There is no strict frost limit during the physical education class. It depends if the class is in the morning or in the afternoon. If there are severe frosts, the school will be indoors and information about indoor sports will be sent home. If it's -15 degrees below zero, but it's terribly windy, it already feels like -25. The exact frost limit is not given because students in different regions get confused about it.
Back in 80's we had a small really old school. I remember that it was some weeks that temperature was permanently under -20°c. First thing in morning was that teacher checked clasroom temperature and if it was something like under +10°c we had a day off from school. Cant remember more accurate. But you have to notice that back then we were already walked/skiied/kick sledged/etc. To school, some kids had to do several kilometres. We were from 7 to 13. I also remember that my mother used always say that in thise cold temperatures you had to have good beanie or more usually hair cap. And you newer go out with wet hair.
when its colder than -15 degrees we still have to go outside on break. have been forced to be outside on break on -25 while the teachers sit inside and drink coffee
And I have never had a day out of school because of the weather. It really is not a thing in Finland. 🤔 There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. 😉
I actually once had that. School was closed for the day due to EXTREMELY cold and snowy day. It was in start of this millenia. A lot of snow and bad heating system. It worked up to 30... Welp. That winter we had -35-40°C days. And it happened to be at the end of the week. Sooo. Longer weekend.
@@riissanen93 Those are so rare cases tho. That is why I myself only had day off due to weather just once. In Finland we are not wussies. But we do know that comfort is best base for learning.
Noup😂 No free days because it's too cold or snowing or rains knives. We just go to school and work like usually. Though I remember, that once when I was a Kid, it was -45 and My dad took me and My twin to school by car. IT was only that one time. We have a saying here in Finland that goes "there is no such thing as cold weather, there is only wrong kind of clothing" When The temperature Falls enough, there isn't huge different If it's -35 or -45. Cold stings and The Air is really dry. You have to wear right kind of clothes and shoes to survive. And learn The basics: don't shower before going out, cover your feet and head properly (bodyheat evaporates from your head) and MOVE your body. You'll Be fine😊
I remember being 5 years old and the temperature was -42 so I told my mom I want to go play outside😅 My mom dressed me up and let me outside. I still remember this stinging, painful feeling on my face and went back inside almost immediately. She just though it was funny that I came back so quick 😂
I remember in the 80s, it was -44 c in the morning and I walked to school like I always did. Nobody even suggested anything else. It was a bit chilly. But we didn`t have to go out on a break.
I spent 14 years at 3 different schools. During that time there wasn't a single day that the schools would have been closed for any kind of weather conditions. However, when the temperature fell below -18, you didn't have to attend the outdoor sport activities. But sometimes you had to argue with the teacher how cold it actually was. There is, however, certain "frost restrictions" for areas like construction building, but even then it may vary from -15 to -25 depending on what you do. For example, there obviously is no sense to pour wet concrete or cement on an icy surface.
That's only normal winter day in Finland like raining in UK. We don't even know word "snow day" in our schools. In 1999 here was -52°C and schools was still open. Ford Finns it' weird that some countries closed down when they see few snow flakes.. 😂 (Sorry to laughing)
In 1999 I went to Finnish Army in Rovaniemi. We had a scheduled camp in the winter right when the frost really hit, and it wasn't canceled, we spent our nights in tents with -45°C or something. It was too cold to turn off our trucks, for the fear of not being able to turn them back on again. Our chiefs were just foaming at us "You get to exprience the conditions of 1939, be thankful!".
You don't need so much layers at -30 if you're wearing good clothes. One long sleeve undershirt, woolen shirt and warm winter jacket are enough. One pair of long johns and warm winter trousers are good. The thing is also that your body adapts to the cold. At the beginning of winter freezing temperatures feel cold but after a while when you spend time doing outdoor activities every day, it starts feeling normal. At first -5 feels cold but after a month or two -20 feels as cold as that -5 earlier.
People often do this mistake. Too much layers with same size clothes, gets too tight and reduces circulation. Sometimes its better to wear 1 pair of socks and leave some room for toes, instead of forcing 2 or even 3 pair of socks inside same shoe your normally wear with 1 pair. Even snow works as great insulation because there is air trapped inside of it. So, let your clothes breath and leave some room. If in doubt, go for the bigger sizes. My biggest mistake was with buying gloves...i had dreamed of those really expensive alpine gloves for 2 years and finally got them...size too small. Felt really good indoors, but too thight and cold outside and no possibility to use undergloves. My friend had same gloves size bigger, and the difference was huge.
@@EiraAimo Yes, that's exactly what I was gonna say! DO NOT layer cloths too tightly in cold weather (this for all the foreigners coming to visit Finland during winter), there's gotta be room between the clothing layers, so your body can heat all the layers. Also, undermost layer next to the skin should be of a material that transfers moisture to the upper layers. Boots that repel water and are for colder weather, then you don't need that many pairs of socks. Also leave that room in the shoe, you do not want to wear your boot smashed up with layers of socks, trust me, you'll get very frosty toes very fast. For a very cold weather mittens are better than gloves, you can wriggle your thumb next to other finger for heat. And definitely wear a proper beanie or what ever head cover and a scarf, neck and areas under ears are very sensitive to cold. Anyways, there are actually a lot of videos how to properly cloth for cold weather or for Finland :)
Somehow bizarre seeing reaction videos of something that's pretty normal to me :D Well, -30°C is rather extreme, but -25°C isn't too unusual in winters in Finland
-30°C is nothing spectacular in Finland it is so common, -40°C to -50°C is note/news worthy The latest -52°C was in 1999, not in the 80s Also, everything he says about clothing and beard during cold is absolutely wrong. How you layer up, with what materials and how much air you leave between the layers is crucial. With proper high quality winter clothing and layering, even -45°C is nothing
I live in Oulu and even this winter it didn't go below -30°c, at least on the outskirts of the city. such temperatures are becoming rare. the coldest I've ever experienced was in -86 in the spring winter in Lapland during military exercises there it was -37°c.
@@peketee2278 Well, Oulu is pretty South and by the Sea. This year has been very mild Winter, with only few weeks of below -30°C temperatures. But that is an exception, not the rule
most of the winter, the sea is frozen all the way to Sweden, except for a few shipping lanes, so it doesn't seem to have much of an effect in January or February, when the coldest temperatures are here.
Schools are always open and working- In -70s my school was 20km away so we had to go by schooltaxi and once in -72 winter it snowed a lot and snow piled to our road 1,5m high- i couldnt walk it throug. Went back home and it take one day after when frontloader came and open road and schooltaxi get through. Thats was only time that weather have stopped my school- never by coldness.
Ahhh man! Always fun to see people watching stuff about Finland. Sounds like this guy had a blast! The best thing about the cold is that it actually gets colder when there's no clouds around! So when you're in -35c - -40c, wearing all those hats, heavy coats, boots, scarves, mittens... And the sun is blazing directly in to your eyes and you got to add sunglasses on top of it all, there really is nothing left of you outside! At that point you're just a walking bundle on clothes. Always fun to see what kind of layers everyone puts on!
No time off school because of the weather. Just couple months back it was -30 or colder whole week in my area and i was cycling to work, was feeling like taking the bus but decided fuck that, i need to exercise. It's not that bad as long as you cover your face and you don't really need to do that if it's not windy, i just personally have to do it because i've frozen my face so many times and it's said once you get coldbite in your face it comes again easier and easier.
I work at a preschool in Sweden and we often look at the percieved temperature rather than the actual temperature to decide if we should take children outside to play during the winter months. (I have only once experienced a recommendation for us/children to not come to work/preschool.) Yesterday we had about -5˚C but a cold wind wich made it feel much colder. I have experienced temperatures around -20/25˚C that have felt ”warmer”. If you live in a warmer climate you can perhaps understand more easily if you think about humidity. I remember when I spent a summer working in El Paso, Texas, which had a very comfortable temperature… but when I went to visit my sister in Arlington, Texas, it was horribly humid. I was drenched in sweat as soon as I stepped outside there.. even though the temperature was the same. The same trip I experienced a surprise reaction to rain, when the children (and staff) all ran outside to experience rain, which to me looked like a pretty normal amount of rainfall (a bit on the heavy side… but not unnormal in Sweden) but resulted in flooded roads and cars on my way home from work. I guess it didn’t happen very often in El Paso and therefore they didn’t have the same kind of infrastructure in place to deal with it and so the water had no way to go.
Yeah, batteries on these new phones don't work well in the cold. It just eats the energy right out of them. Old nokia phones were good, the batteries hold much longer even in very cold weather..
This goes for all type of batteries even EV-batteries which has heaters that in that type of cold isn't powerful enough to keep the battery heated. This is why most EV cars break down during these extreme temperatures. Batteries holds an electrical charge by a chemical process and in the cold this process slows down, and it's decremental to how cold it gets. It's just physics folks! We in the north are a hardened people wether its Norway, Sweden or Finland we all get the same type of winters and it's not unusual that we get these temperatures. It's funny to see that all the nordics uses the same axiom "There are no bad weather only bad clothing", though it's quite true! A big hug to my fellow nordic neighbours.(Im from sweden)
@@jorgensoderlund6772 du är från sverige? En jävla finne här, hej (pappa var svensk) 😄 Tack för den där informationen, jag förstår ingenting när det gäller batterier. 😅
Usually -30°C/-35°C frost is an exception week in Finnish weather and happens about once a year if it happens. It doesn't happen every winter. And normally, Finnish winter frosts remain at their coldest around -20°C, or in normal winter weather around -15°C. On the other hand, in contrast, the summer temperature can reach up to +30°C/+35°C with its records, but this heat record, as well as the winter's peak frosts, are an exception and requires unusual weather conditions. But it is said that if climate change is not stopped completely from changing the climate but it is still allowed to continue and change our planet, it is predicted that extreme weather phenomena such as high winter frosts and high summer heat will increase exponentially, "like mushrooms multiplies after a rain."
In the 90's, when it was around -50°C, some schools were closed because school buses using diesel could not be used. That is the only time I've ever heard schools being closed because of the cold.
I put my long johns on when it hits -20. Never had a "snow day" in my life. It's a pain in the... to sometimes dig out the car from the snow in the morning to get to work. But hey, that's normal life up here.
In 1999 I was in upper elementary school near Oulu, Finland, and it was a heck of a cold winter. It was round - 48 C (even colder in Lapland) and harsh cold wind, but no, we really did have to go to school every day.
My friend told me a story. He was working for a year in, was Hemel-Hempstead, north of London. Well, he had a holyday and went to Mexico for a week. When he came back, Heathrow was in panic because it snowed...3cm😂 In finland, we call it summer!😁😀
One winter morning, about 30 years ago, I was going to work driving my car along the road about 1.5 kilometer from hill top down to the the hill bottom. The thermometer showed a drop from -16 to -26 degrees centigrade. There was no wind at the time and the cold weather stayed at the bottom. It was funny watching the temperature drop so quickly. Fortunately my car was warm. This took place in very southern Finland, near Helsinki.
This happens on my way to work also, there's an open valley that drops the temperature. Not as drastically but did go this year from -18 to -23 for a 0,5km stretch and then started warming up again. There are for sure "cold spots" where the cold gathers when altitude drops slightly.
When You live in countryside in Finland, sometimes the busses (distances might be around 35-100 kilometers) don't start when it is -35 degrees centrigrade. If there is no public transportartion to school, You need to keep "webinar" day, school day via internet. If You live around 20 km from school You go to school
From Finland. Below -20 to -25 you very vividly realize you are in a life threathening situation and the time you can stand the weather relies completely on how you are equiped. Can I go pick my mail from the mail box and take out the trash at the same time while bare footed and wearing t-shit and shorts. Yes, I could. I have. It hurts a bit, it sucks a little even after getting inside. Do I realize I would die in few hours if I could not get back inside? Yes. So combine that with the feeling of having to go to work in the morning and waiting for the bus/train/tram/scraping off snow from your windshield and you get the idea how it is.
No days off school because of weather, LOL. Although, when the temperature was about -25C or colder, we were allowed to stay inside between the lessons. Or was it -20?
After -20 it kind of feels pretty much the same, it will just penetrate your clothes faster when colder - and when it get colder, it is harder to breathe. Im a finn, and i cant explain the feeling of the cold any better. I never had snow days, only when the bus didnt start :D
Northern Sweden here. When I was in elementary school, the rule was that when it was -25c or colder, we didn't have PE class outside, because at those temperatures it becomes hard to breathe in the cold air during exertion. This was before climate change and it was often -30 when I went to school in the morning, but when gym class started a few hours later the teacher said "now it's warmer than -25, so just put on your skis". We knew he was lying, but this was before cell phones, so we had no way to uncover the hoax. At the beginning of the year it was really cold even for us. -43.6 in the coldest place, -36.3 where I live. Some schools had to miss a school day because the buses couldn't handle the cold, but that's rare. That never happened to me during my school days. Where I live, it is normally a bigger problem when it gets to plus degrees in the winter, because then the road becomes an ice rink.
I remember one winter, I had to leave for school through kitchen window because the snow had blocked the front door. Next day school was off because it kept snowing and the road maintenance couldn't keep up, many living in more rural areas so kids couldn't get to school. Never reached the cold limits when you didn't need to go to school but in my elementary if it got over -25 you could choose to stay inside during recess. Most kids still went outside.
Few years back it was around -30 to -34celsius for a week while i was working on a construction site. It was pretty cold for fingers but after a few hours it didn't bother at all anymore 😅
You know it's cold in Finland when teenagers start using socks that hide their ankles or that "tough" school mate of yours actually wears long sleeved shirt. That means it's around -30 Celsius.
We had school during three winters when it was around and probably even below -40 degrees, no days off. There might have been places in Lapland where they did have to cancel but that's because they had closer to -50 C or even colder and the distances are longer, and the cars and busses are not that reliable anymore in those temperatures, so it was better to keep the children home.
I live in south of Finland. When we were kids minus 20 and we were playing in the forest with toy guns or playng ice hockey. Sometimes brething froze my nostrils close. Jus normal stuff. Even my dog can't handle heat. After minus 10 she becomes alive and it's hard to get her of the balcony.
In my town some small businesses closed temporarily just because the new fancy electric cars didn't start in the cold weather, and neither did a good bit of newer gas/diesel or hybrid ones. We have a crummy old 90s wolkswagen and it just kept going like a champ, had to give loads of rides for friends and relatives that week lol. Tech fails surprisingly easily in the winter. The train system is notorious for barely functioning winter. I thankfully didn't have to go outside much but I did hang up a blanket in place of the normal curtains in the window because the cold was leaking in. This is why we have double or triple glass windows and why old houses with thinner ones or bad insulation are a pain in the ass. Good thing about the cold though? The balcony is a great freezer if you have any food that's about to go bad or beer that needs chilling. Greasy food helps with the cold a bit, I'm always like twice as hungry when it gets super cold. You just kind of adapt and embrace the caveman survival mentality.
No. No snow days. In the past like 30 years the airport near the Finnish capital has been closed for 30 minutes due to snow. When it gets to like -20 and under you really don't want to be outside any more, so when we do go out, we are pretty straight forward with it... Go and do what we need to do and get back inside.
It kind of makes sense that a country like Britain would close of if there is snow. Snow and cold is no problem, if you prepared: cars blowing snow, showels, winter tires, wool clothes with layers . I bet one of the mistakes Irish in Finland made was that he wore too small clothes. There needs to be air between clothing layers and if you have too small boots it doesn't really help if you have two pairs or three pairs of socks. Same goes to coats and sweaters etc.
Nope. Never a day off because of snow etc. from school. I think our out-door sports during gym class limit at school was -20 or -25 C depending on the sport (but this was during the 1980s, so might be less these days).
-30 degrees Celsius isn't unusual for me. I'm an Elder Millennial. I remember what winters in Finland used to be like in the 1900s! But damn, that week really felt cold. I don't know why. Maybe there was moisture in the air.
As long as you're functional, keep moving but not too much, you can do bits of time outside in the cold. Then pop in, get warm, have a drink. Cold is different skiing in mid-Finland woods with no wind than out walking near the sea wind in South Finland. When you start losing body temp for some reason, you then feel nausea, hunger, fatigue, crankiness and may stop talking or tell others to go away, that you're ok. Taken to extremes, body temp under 34 degrees and lower the hypothermia flushes your last heat out of the body, making you sweaty and ppl actually remove their clothes, even all of them. Reaching 25 degrees your heart gives out. One should never get wet in the cold, that is a really bad thing.
Only once was the school closed. It happened after a snowstorm that caused an electricity blackout for some days. I walked halfway to the school on that day when my buddy walked to the other direction and told me that the school was closed. We walked back home and went to play outside.
minus thirty, it's not a reading in itself, and nothing here in Finland, well maybe somewhere in the most distant Finland it's already starting to get a reasonably hard frost, but it's still very common in winter here in Lapland. Every winter there are readings like that here. You get used to it, although sometimes it seems that especially the youth have gotten used to it a little too well, when the best almost run in summer camps even in the most severe frosts. There's nothing else to it, I guess, but sometimes I worry a lot in the winter for these young people. Those frostbite injuries are no joke.
Had a snow day once... It snowed like 1 meter over night. I think I was on second grade. I remember looking from my window in the morning and looking at this kids slide on our yard. Only the very tip of it was showing. Soon after our teacher called to tell that school was cancelled for today.
I used to work outside and I didn't skip work even on -33°c days. I had an option to stay home, but i just dressed warmly and got used to it, but afterwards I had problems inside if i had to Wear more than just shorts, because it was too hot 😅
when its hot or normal temperatures there is a ton of water vapor in the air and that hydrates your skin and airways surprisingly by a significant amount... on the other hand when its that cold outside everything is dry and all that ice around your face is actually the moisture leaving your body as you exhale...
As a Finn who have lived in Belgium and Ireland I must say.... -5 in Brussels feels like -30 in Finland. The air is more dry up north so it doesn't feel that cold. I lived in Ireland during spring and summer and damn it was cold. House warming is so different to nordic countries... It was spring and summer and I was feeling cold when I went to sleep
-35 and we still went to school like it's nothing. The only thing that was different was the time between classes. We didn't have to go outside. But most kids did. I never have problems with -35 if I have warm shoes and good handwear. Just keep moving a little bit and stay dry.
I'm mostly pissed off when my face starts to freeze so at -20C and below I tend to wear my commando hood. Then I get kids on the street pointing at me saying "look, he's probably rushing B"
I think that in northern finland they have to cancel school more often because the amount of snow there. And about the phone, we put the phone in a wool sock or try to keep the phone close to the body so the battery doesn't run out
What does cold air feel like? You lose your sense of smell as soon as you go outside. Sometimes it feels to me like a smell something burning for a very small time. And mostly you only notice it once you go back in, to somewhere warm and your nose opens up again.
eh, when I i were a wee lass, i think it had to be about 30 degree negative to skip recess. In the army, we were not allowed to use our earmuffs unless it was below minus 20 degrees. Coldest night for me was about 30 degree negative, when my boot froze so badly that i had to have a squad mate tear my boots off me, since they where frozen to my heels.
As the @thekentaurion already pointed out, the winter of 1999 was incredibly cold. It only got down to about -45c⁰ where I lived, and my parents forced me to take my bike to school. That trip will live with me for the rest of my life. Gears were frozen, no breaks, the oil around the chain was almost a solid, and not a liquid at those temps.
This reminds me of an army tale... I was a group leader on one and when we finally should have stopped to camp we were given damp frozen logs to burn... well needless to say we slept in the cold that night. I woke up to all of my midsection pulling veins. after that hell i woke up enough to continue functioning and questioning why there was no fire in the tent. No surprise they couldn't get those frozen logs to ignite.
No free days you will go to work/school and you will like it no matter what weather it is or how much snow there is. you were scolded if you were late from school even if it was heavy snowstorm and by heavy i mean those crazy wall high snow dunes.
In december the -30 C day was the best to go play ice hockey, I had the rink all for myself. I admit I was a bit careless when getting out of breath and breathed too much through mouth which is not the greatest experience at -30 C. I swear it wasn't the mildest winter though. We had snow and good below zero temperatures for long periods of times. The last decade has been pested with black winters and rain, the weather going above freezing multiple times in the winter. This was about the best winter in my memory in a good while. And Oulu is much further north than where I live, Oulu has tougher winters. Some lessons about winter clothing though: you start wearing the scarf when it gets towards freezing. Because there's bound to be windy weather below +10C inevidently. Particularly in Oulu that's located at the sea shore. It is pretty much always windy there. When it gets below -20C you start wearing the long pants (jockeys?) under, no matter if you're a person who wears them or not. And you don't wear jeans but like cargo pants or skiing pants, whatever they'd be called, the ones you use at downhill. And you wear those light cotton gloves under your mittens or some thinsulate type winter gloves. You probably wear woollen socks in your boots. And buy a good pair of boots. I had only my regular socks inside an ice skate in that -30 C and they didn't start going numb from the cold. Have space for them to move and fit your double socks without being tight. Allows circulation and insulating air layers. And you check that the edges like sleeves and pant legs are well protected so the cold air doesn't flow through against your bare skin. You might pull the scarf above your nose. Aside wearing your normal clothes like t-shirt and a hoodie or college shirt or whatever. That way you're gonna feel pretty warm throughout the day even if you spend prolonged times outside. It doesn't feel uncomfortable, it feels pretty cozy. And your winter jacket and pants are obviously not too small to wear with layers. Too many layers is also a thing if you don't choose them wisely. Because you're gonna just get sweaty from the layers not breathing. Then it's gonna feel like wearing latex suit, like a sauna inside your clothes, exhausting, no way to let that heat and humidity out. The battery thing can really get you, even I forget it every winter. When I went to play ice hockey, I tried recording a bit of skating and shots and listened to music and it probably lasted like 15 minutes. It's better in the pocket but it still runs fast compared to what you're used to. Personally I think having a beard in the winter time is the best thing you can do. I specifically don't shave in the winter just because I don't want to start protecting my face when it gets very cold. Just my personal opinion but I'll take -30C before +30C. In Finland there's no way to escape if the summer gets as hot as +30 C all the way up to +35 C (which it has done regularly in the last decade, I don't think it used to be a thing in my youth). You can't turn the heating off more than it has, if you have the windows/balcony door open you ruin the designed airflow, if you don't you just feel like being in a sauna, the warm still air surrounds you. After the sun starts to go down you might think now's the time to enjoy some nightly breeze. Nope, the sun has heated up the walls so that even though the night air might feel even cold, maybe it's only +10 C, the walls are radiating so much heat it still feels about as hot as +30 C, I recall it was often around +28 C at night inside. In the winter the houses are designed to keep the heat and the radiators are working so the room temperature stays nice (caveat being where you live, you might be living in an old house with no renovations done or the landlord not heating it up properly) and only when you leave outside you have to consider it, and you can still dress up if it's slightly colder inside. But it's also slightly unfair to compare like Finland and the UK about snow. For Finland it's the normal thing to get a full winter every year so it's not something to prepare for, it's normal procedure. Whereas in those countries it's an out of ordinary event. Here in Finland it's normal town maintenance to have snowplows running at night/early morning and evening for example. But yeah I haven't ever heard of school being canceled for weather. I read in the comments someone had experienced that because their school building was old and improperly maintained. But in normal circumstances no. I once had half a day off in high school, but that was just because I didn't see any buses coming and I saw one of them in the ditch because it snowed so heavily out of nowhere that night and morning. So we just sat at my friend's playing video games until noon and then we noticed we had a bus going and went to school. The tip about being hydrated was gold nuggets though. Never even think about that myself usually. In very hot and cold environments the body doesn't signal for hydration quite as well as it normally does, so you in fact can drink a bit more than your body suggests. And you probably should too. It's actually something you learn in the military service, always keep hydrated so you stay warm and effective.
We had -38 for almost a week at January. When there was “only” -28 in thermometer at Saturday morning, I get my snowmobile and went to nearest town 30km away for my morning coffee. Well, there was still -33 when I get there, and there’s few lakes to cross on the way, and I heard there was -40 at the biggest lake that morning. But I got my coffee, drove back home, and got some great photos that morning. Next winter I hope to drive more in those conditions. 😁
Past 10 years we have had 3(can not confirm the third year atm. like what year) winters with -30C or colder (2006 there was -32 where i lived at a time and it was next to sea with over 20m sec wind). Yeah 18 hours working outside with -32C is a bit mutch(personal experience). (corrected the 2006 temp to -32 from -34, 43 was our country cold record)
In Finnish schools, there is no official frost limit, but spending recess and exercise classes outside is always assessed on a school or municipality basis. Some schools are not satisfied with just staring at the temperature gauge, but also use the frost biting index, which takes into account the effect of the wind, in the evaluation.
When I went to school in Sweden there was a blizzard so it was dangerous to be outside, school was cancelled. During my 12 years at school it happened once.
I have never had any days off of school because of weather or such and I have never heard that being a thing either. Nowadays I believe there are limits where you are not forced to go outside every recess like -25 or something and there are less recess as well. I have never had that and we had a recess every hour, mandatory outside time.
I have never had a day off because of the weather. But I've heard that my fathers generation had so cold that they've got a day off. So I guess there is a limit, it's just really high (or low, as temperatures go below zero). And I actually like the really cold days. Things look really magical then, just like a winter wonderland from a painting. Later at the evening/night the street lights form these pillars of light, as the light reflect from the ice cristallyzing from the moisture in the air. That doesn't happen at -10 or even -15, I think you need well over -20 to that to happen. Those really cold days also don't last very long, usually only a couple of days, maybe a week at most, so you get those milder -10 days soon enough, which feels almost warm after the really cold days. And those crisp cold days beat those +3 weathers any day, I hate when the snow melts into slush (loska), and when it freezes over again it is either really smooth and slippery, or on very nasty grooves so its hard to drive a car or ride a bike on it. Of course somewhere between -10 and -15 is the ideal winter temperature, but if I had to choose, I'd rather have colder than milder days.
Just something random to notice, you know those electric cars, yes they are not very handy climates like this. I mean taxi drivers in Finland are pushed to use only electric cars. I use a lot of taxis and all drivers say the electric cars do not work in cold climates, take ages to load and then not too long need load again. And customers expect the car is warm obviously. Well then the engine runs out even more quickly. Luckily many uses diesel cars because well, the electric ones do not work even when its -20 degrees
The phone does not go "Down" it just can not access the electrons from the batery element thay efficently and so it thinks battery is low, actually it has the charge but it outputs litle of it due to the cold.
its been like 20 years or so when it been that cold in finland. sure there are -30c weather in every winter in lapland but that its -30c every where its been 20years or so. and then it was -52c in lapland. but never have i even heard that there is no school because of weather. and i havent experienced it when i was school age.
Tip, carry matches (even if you don't smoke) busses and cars may stop (Diesel easier) in those temperatures and gas lighters won't work. Keep electronic things close to your body warmth
this winter the coldest was -28 celsius in my city at finland. And this is what i wore during the coldest period: Jeans, regular socks, airforces, t shirt, hoodie and an puffer on top of that, new jersey fitted cap and no gloves😂
-35 is so cold that if you dont get inside you will just die. Specially if its windy. There is no clothing that can keep you warm for long period of time. One hour starts to be deadly if you aint doing some serious workout like skiing etc. If you just stand you will lose finger, nose etc….
-30 is not even that cold if you know to dress right. If his toes were freezing that suggests that he wore wrong kind of socks or the socks were worn the wrong way. And the beard thing - I like doing that for show but besides that, wear a scarf over you face. Even though sometimes the beard freezes to the scarf in some occasions, the ice melts very quickly when you go indoors. My 8 year old kid walked to school in that weather and didn't even complain about the cold because we get used to it. She even slept outside in daytime as a baby every day regardles the temperature. It is all about layering the right way.
Cold itself is not that bad with proper clothing, cold combined with wind is. Wind multiplies the effect by conducting the heat away and stripping away the warmer air cushion you develop around you from your bodyheat. -30 with even moderate wind is way worse than calm weather. If you have clothing that doesn't let wind in you need way less clothing in cold weather.
-30c is not very cold, more like normal winter day. -40 is cold. I has been winterfishing when it was -33 and there wasnt any problem to stay out whatever light we had that day + walking on fishing spot. One thing what everyone should be aware is not do anything what get you very winded when below -28. It may damage your lungs permanently. Usually that not happening in -28 but its possible even when its not colder than that. However when its like -40 it surely will happening. Right cloths and you can stay outside hours in below -30. Clothing is the key thing here.
How does -30 Celcius feel like? At first it's really really cold, no surprises there, but after the cold it begins to burn and hurt. Imagine like putting your hand under running tap that's set to hot. After the burn it gets cold again and after that you beging to get numb. When should you begin to worry? Right when you start feeling cold, that's first warning sign your doing something wrong, your not wearing enough layers.
Im outside worker. -30 week is not bad and I dont feel as much coldness as in fall when is near 0 its raining sideways. Those days I would like to just be inside. I would fill up that you need to drink but also remember to eat More than normal or you feel cold.
There is no "snowdays". I remember that we didn't have to go skiing during sports when it was under -25c. I remember maybe once school was cancelled because of a winter storm and the hole town was out of electricity including the school.
I remember one damn sunday morning back in 1980's. I had finished my night shift at 7:00 in the morning. Of course there was no buses on sunday that early in the morning and I had no money for a taxi, so I did what I had to do: walk home. Unfortunately it was the coldest day I've seen in this town! -30 or lower and a 3/4 hour walk. I had prepared as well as I could so I had double layers of clothing so I survived (apparently). It was Hell.
In the 80’s we did not have to go outside during breaks when it was under -30. Still we had to walk to school but i dont remember never having a memory of the weather being too cold or feeling cold. And yeah, snow days, nope.
-30 is pretty cold but not the worst. You get used to the weather pretty quickly when you live here. It's hilarious to me that -10 would do something like that to a country :D I'd consider that to be the average winter. Like -10/-20. Not that bad even tho cold weather is kinda annoying to deal with in general.
When I was a kid, we used to go out skating when it was below -30. One might wonder why, but back in the 1970's there was not that much to do. We went skating, because the reason why skates glide on the ice is that the pressure under the narrow blade turns the ice into water and water on ice, as we know, is slippery. That is why you can skate. At -30 degrees this no longer happens. The cold ice remains ice - and that is hilarious. Kids that can skate well suddenly cannot, it feels really funny and you laugh at your friends that are so clumsy and keep falling.
No, not even once in my life did school get cancelled because of weather. The coldest temperature I have experienced was -38, and I remember my dad coming into my room with a candle to wake me up for school, and saying that the power had been out for a couple of hours because of the extreme cold.
The frost limit for going to school is only considered by municipality at -30/-35 degrees. The municipalities themselves determine at their own discretion what constitutes severe frost. When it's colder than -15 degrees below zero, we stay inside during the breaks. The lesson schedules are designed so that you don't have to be outside in the coldest time, i.e. in the morning. There is no strict frost limit during the physical education class. It depends if the class is in the morning or in the afternoon. If there are severe frosts, the school will be indoors and information about indoor sports will be sent home. If it's -15 degrees below zero, but it's terribly windy, it already feels like -25. The exact frost limit is not given because students in different regions get confused about it.
We go out in schools under 20C, in Tampere.
I remember it being about -25°C when I was in school, that being in 90's, when we got to be inside. I grew up in Heinola.
Back in 80's we had a small really old school. I remember that it was some weeks that temperature was permanently under -20°c. First thing in morning was that teacher checked clasroom temperature and if it was something like under +10°c we had a day off from school. Cant remember more accurate. But you have to notice that back then we were already walked/skiied/kick sledged/etc. To school, some kids had to do several kilometres. We were from 7 to 13. I also remember that my mother used always say that in thise cold temperatures you had to have good beanie or more usually hair cap. And you newer go out with wet hair.
@@eviliiBut when my dad went to school it was almost -50c and he had to ski all the way from rovaniemi to kemi along the kemijoki ice.
when its colder than -15 degrees we still have to go outside on break. have been forced to be outside on break on -25 while the teachers sit inside and drink coffee
And I have never had a day out of school because of the weather. It really is not a thing in Finland. 🤔 There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. 😉
Wait, schools close for weather???
@@DubiousFIN in some countries yes. Not in Finland obviously.
I actually once had that. School was closed for the day due to EXTREMELY cold and snowy day. It was in start of this millenia. A lot of snow and bad heating system. It worked up to 30... Welp. That winter we had -35-40°C days. And it happened to be at the end of the week. Sooo. Longer weekend.
We had to call it quits once. Old building and the heating was not suitable for -40. We had negative degrees indoors.
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Those are so rare cases tho. That is why I myself only had day off due to weather just once. In Finland we are not wussies. But we do know that comfort is best base for learning.
When you feel the nostril hairs freezing then you know.
It’s a very unique feeling 😅
Noup😂 No free days because it's too cold or snowing or rains knives. We just go to school and work like usually. Though I remember, that once when I was a Kid, it was -45 and My dad took me and My twin to school by car. IT was only that one time.
We have a saying here in Finland that goes "there is no such thing as cold weather, there is only wrong kind of clothing"
When The temperature Falls enough, there isn't huge different If it's -35 or -45. Cold stings and The Air is really dry. You have to wear right kind of clothes and shoes to survive. And learn The basics: don't shower before going out, cover your feet and head properly (bodyheat evaporates from your head) and MOVE your body. You'll Be fine😊
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-30 is not that bad. just have to wear some decent winter clothing and after that i barely feel it.
I remember being 5 years old and the temperature was -42 so I told my mom I want to go play outside😅 My mom dressed me up and let me outside. I still remember this stinging, painful feeling on my face and went back inside almost immediately. She just though it was funny that I came back so quick 😂
I remember in the 80s, it was -44 c in the morning and I walked to school like I always did. Nobody even suggested anything else. It was a bit chilly. But we didn`t have to go out on a break.
I spent 14 years at 3 different schools. During that time there wasn't a single day that the schools would have been closed for any kind of weather conditions.
However, when the temperature fell below -18, you didn't have to attend the outdoor sport activities. But sometimes you had to argue with the teacher how cold it actually was.
There is, however, certain "frost restrictions" for areas like construction building, but even then it may vary from -15 to -25 depending on what you do.
For example, there obviously is no sense to pour wet concrete or cement on an icy surface.
That's why we finns invented the sauna 😅
Nimestä päätellen oot ässä fani
That's only normal winter day in Finland like raining in UK. We don't even know word "snow day" in our schools. In 1999 here was -52°C and schools was still open. Ford Finns it' weird that some countries closed down when they see few snow flakes.. 😂 (Sorry to laughing)
In 1999 I went to Finnish Army in Rovaniemi. We had a scheduled camp in the winter right when the frost really hit, and it wasn't canceled, we spent our nights in tents with -45°C or something. It was too cold to turn off our trucks, for the fear of not being able to turn them back on again. Our chiefs were just foaming at us "You get to exprience the conditions of 1939, be thankful!".
@@bolozon Winter -39 was milder than normally. Really harsh weather came after new year.
You don't need so much layers at -30 if you're wearing good clothes. One long sleeve undershirt, woolen shirt and warm winter jacket are enough. One pair of long johns and warm winter trousers are good. The thing is also that your body adapts to the cold. At the beginning of winter freezing temperatures feel cold but after a while when you spend time doing outdoor activities every day, it starts feeling normal. At first -5 feels cold but after a month or two -20 feels as cold as that -5 earlier.
People often do this mistake. Too much layers with same size clothes, gets too tight and reduces circulation. Sometimes its better to wear 1 pair of socks and leave some room for toes, instead of forcing 2 or even 3 pair of socks inside same shoe your normally wear with 1 pair. Even snow works as great insulation because there is air trapped inside of it. So, let your clothes breath and leave some room. If in doubt, go for the bigger sizes. My biggest mistake was with buying gloves...i had dreamed of those really expensive alpine gloves for 2 years and finally got them...size too small. Felt really good indoors, but too thight and cold outside and no possibility to use undergloves. My friend had same gloves size bigger, and the difference was huge.
@@EiraAimo Yes, that's exactly what I was gonna say! DO NOT layer cloths too tightly in cold weather (this for all the foreigners coming to visit Finland during winter), there's gotta be room between the clothing layers, so your body can heat all the layers. Also, undermost layer next to the skin should be of a material that transfers moisture to the upper layers. Boots that repel water and are for colder weather, then you don't need that many pairs of socks. Also leave that room in the shoe, you do not want to wear your boot smashed up with layers of socks, trust me, you'll get very frosty toes very fast. For a very cold weather mittens are better than gloves, you can wriggle your thumb next to other finger for heat. And definitely wear a proper beanie or what ever head cover and a scarf, neck and areas under ears are very sensitive to cold. Anyways, there are actually a lot of videos how to properly cloth for cold weather or for Finland :)
Somehow bizarre seeing reaction videos of something that's pretty normal to me :D
Well, -30°C is rather extreme, but -25°C isn't too unusual in winters in Finland
This year the lowest temperature in Finland was in February: -44°C. The record lowest was in 1999 at -51,5°C or about -60°F.
Any day off the school due to cold weather in Finland? No. Only if it is very cold you may be allowed to stay inside during recession.
-30°C is nothing spectacular in Finland it is so common, -40°C to -50°C is note/news worthy
The latest -52°C was in 1999, not in the 80s
Also, everything he says about clothing and beard during cold is absolutely wrong. How you layer up, with what materials and how much air you leave between the layers is crucial. With proper high quality winter clothing and layering, even -45°C is nothing
I live in Oulu and even this winter it didn't go below -30°c, at least on the outskirts of the city. such temperatures are becoming rare. the coldest I've ever experienced was in -86 in the spring winter in Lapland during military exercises there it was -37°c.
@@peketee2278 Well, Oulu is pretty South and by the Sea. This year has been very mild Winter, with only few weeks of below -30°C temperatures. But that is an exception, not the rule
most of the winter, the sea is frozen all the way to Sweden, except for a few shipping lanes, so it doesn't seem to have much of an effect in January or February, when the coldest temperatures are here.
In Oulu, as the video claims, -52°c has never been measured.
True, but that day in 1999 was colder than anything in the 80s, even in Oulu
-30 aint even that bad
Finland: *gives -30°c weather*
The Finns: Meh, i ain't too worried about it
Schools are always open and working- In -70s my school was 20km away so we had to go by schooltaxi and once in -72 winter it snowed a lot and snow piled to our road 1,5m high- i couldnt walk it throug. Went back home and it take one day after when frontloader came and open road and schooltaxi get through. Thats was only time that weather have stopped my school- never by coldness.
There are no snowdays off school in Finland. Only when it goes below -15°c, you can stay inside during breaks in between lessons
Ahhh man! Always fun to see people watching stuff about Finland. Sounds like this guy had a blast!
The best thing about the cold is that it actually gets colder when there's no clouds around!
So when you're in -35c - -40c, wearing all those hats, heavy coats, boots, scarves, mittens...
And the sun is blazing directly in to your eyes and you got to add sunglasses on top of it all, there really is nothing left of you outside!
At that point you're just a walking bundle on clothes. Always fun to see what kind of layers everyone puts on!
No time off school because of the weather. Just couple months back it was -30 or colder whole week in my area and i was cycling to work, was feeling like taking the bus but decided fuck that, i need to exercise. It's not that bad as long as you cover your face and you don't really need to do that if it's not windy, i just personally have to do it because i've frozen my face so many times and it's said once you get coldbite in your face it comes again easier and easier.
yup, -30C is perfectly "bikeable".
I work at a preschool in Sweden and we often look at the percieved temperature rather than the actual temperature to decide if we should take children outside to play during the winter months. (I have only once experienced a recommendation for us/children to not come to work/preschool.) Yesterday we had about -5˚C but a cold wind wich made it feel much colder. I have experienced temperatures around -20/25˚C that have felt ”warmer”. If you live in a warmer climate you can perhaps understand more easily if you think about humidity. I remember when I spent a summer working in El Paso, Texas, which had a very comfortable temperature… but when I went to visit my sister in Arlington, Texas, it was horribly humid. I was drenched in sweat as soon as I stepped outside there.. even though the temperature was the same.
The same trip I experienced a surprise reaction to rain, when the children (and staff) all ran outside to experience rain, which to me looked like a pretty normal amount of rainfall (a bit on the heavy side… but not unnormal in Sweden) but resulted in flooded roads and cars on my way home from work. I guess it didn’t happen very often in El Paso and therefore they didn’t have the same kind of infrastructure in place to deal with it and so the water had no way to go.
Really dry soil can actually repel water for a while before it starts absorbing it, so it's not necessarily only about infrastructure.
When I was in the army in 1998, when we were at the rookie camp, the frost never dropped below -30c during the whole week
Yeah, batteries on these new phones don't work well in the cold. It just eats the energy right out of them. Old nokia phones were good, the batteries hold much longer even in very cold weather..
This goes for all type of batteries even EV-batteries which has heaters that in that type of cold isn't powerful enough to keep the battery heated. This is why most EV cars break down during these extreme temperatures. Batteries holds an electrical charge by a chemical process and in the cold this process slows down, and it's decremental to how cold it gets. It's just physics folks!
We in the north are a hardened people wether its Norway, Sweden or Finland we all get the same type of winters and it's not unusual that we get these temperatures.
It's funny to see that all the nordics uses the same axiom "There are no bad weather only bad clothing", though it's quite true!
A big hug to my fellow nordic neighbours.(Im from sweden)
@@jorgensoderlund6772 du är från sverige? En jävla finne här, hej (pappa var svensk) 😄 Tack för den där informationen, jag förstår ingenting när det gäller batterier. 😅
BAtteries are fine, but the frigging smart phones won't turn on on cold.. They just cry "it's too cold".
Usually -30°C/-35°C frost is an exception week in Finnish weather and happens about once a year if it happens. It doesn't happen every winter. And normally, Finnish winter frosts remain at their coldest around -20°C, or in normal winter weather around -15°C.
On the other hand, in contrast, the summer temperature can reach up to +30°C/+35°C with its records, but this heat record, as well as the winter's peak frosts, are an exception and requires unusual weather conditions.
But it is said that if climate change is not stopped completely from changing the climate but it is still allowed to continue and change our planet, it is predicted that extreme weather phenomena such as high winter frosts and high summer heat will increase exponentially, "like mushrooms multiplies after a rain."
In the 90's, when it was around -50°C, some schools were closed because school buses using diesel could not be used. That is the only time I've ever heard schools being closed because of the cold.
I put my long johns on when it hits -20. Never had a "snow day" in my life. It's a pain in the... to sometimes dig out the car from the snow in the morning to get to work. But hey, that's normal life up here.
When I think about cold I think about suddenly being able to feel my nostril hair as they presumably start to freeze
In 1999 I was in upper elementary school near Oulu, Finland, and it was a heck of a cold winter. It was round - 48 C (even colder in Lapland) and harsh cold wind, but no, we really did have to go to school every day.
My friend told me a story. He was working for a year in, was Hemel-Hempstead, north of London. Well, he had a holyday and went to Mexico for a week. When he came back, Heathrow was in panic because it snowed...3cm😂 In finland, we call it summer!😁😀
One winter morning, about 30 years ago, I was going to work driving my car along the road about 1.5 kilometer from hill top down to the the hill bottom. The thermometer showed a drop from -16 to -26 degrees centigrade. There was no wind at the time and the cold weather stayed at the bottom. It was funny watching the temperature drop so quickly. Fortunately my car was warm. This took place in very southern Finland, near Helsinki.
This happens on my way to work also, there's an open valley that drops the temperature. Not as drastically but did go this year from -18 to -23 for a 0,5km stretch and then started warming up again. There are for sure "cold spots" where the cold gathers when altitude drops slightly.
When You live in countryside in Finland, sometimes the busses (distances might be around 35-100 kilometers) don't start when it is -35 degrees centrigrade. If there is no public transportartion to school, You need to keep "webinar" day, school day via internet. If You live around 20 km from school You go to school
From Finland. Below -20 to -25 you very vividly realize you are in a life threathening situation and the time you can stand the weather relies completely on how you are equiped. Can I go pick my mail from the mail box and take out the trash at the same time while bare footed and wearing t-shit and shorts. Yes, I could. I have. It hurts a bit, it sucks a little even after getting inside. Do I realize I would die in few hours if I could not get back inside? Yes. So combine that with the feeling of having to go to work in the morning and waiting for the bus/train/tram/scraping off snow from your windshield and you get the idea how it is.
No days off school because of weather, LOL. Although, when the temperature was about -25C or colder, we were allowed to stay inside between the lessons. Or was it -20?
After -20 it kind of feels pretty much the same, it will just penetrate your clothes faster when colder - and when it get colder, it is harder to breathe. Im a finn, and i cant explain the feeling of the cold any better.
I never had snow days, only when the bus didnt start :D
Northern Sweden here. When I was in elementary school, the rule was that when it was -25c or colder, we didn't have PE class outside, because at those temperatures it becomes hard to breathe in the cold air during exertion. This was before climate change and it was often -30 when I went to school in the morning, but when gym class started a few hours later the teacher said "now it's warmer than -25, so just put on your skis". We knew he was lying, but this was before cell phones, so we had no way to uncover the hoax.
At the beginning of the year it was really cold even for us. -43.6 in the coldest place, -36.3 where I live. Some schools had to miss a school day because the buses couldn't handle the cold, but that's rare. That never happened to me during my school days. Where I live, it is normally a bigger problem when it gets to plus degrees in the winter, because then the road becomes an ice rink.
I remember one winter, I had to leave for school through kitchen window because the snow had blocked the front door. Next day school was off because it kept snowing and the road maintenance couldn't keep up, many living in more rural areas so kids couldn't get to school.
Never reached the cold limits when you didn't need to go to school but in my elementary if it got over -25 you could choose to stay inside during recess. Most kids still went outside.
And if sea is near city the cold is really cold. Wind and cold coming from ice and moisture humidi😊
Ancient people said about hydration in the winter that you eat warm soup. That way, you get a large volume of heat inside your body at the same time.
Few years back it was around -30 to -34celsius for a week while i was working on a construction site. It was pretty cold for fingers but after a few hours it didn't bother at all anymore 😅
the weather is not a reason to miss school or work
You know it's cold in Finland when teenagers start using socks that hide their ankles or that "tough" school mate of yours actually wears long sleeved shirt. That means it's around -30 Celsius.
We had school during three winters when it was around and probably even below -40 degrees, no days off. There might have been places in Lapland where they did have to cancel but that's because they had closer to -50 C or even colder and the distances are longer, and the cars and busses are not that reliable anymore in those temperatures, so it was better to keep the children home.
I live in south of Finland. When we were kids minus 20 and we were playing in the forest with toy guns or playng ice hockey. Sometimes brething froze my nostrils close. Jus normal stuff. Even my dog can't handle heat. After minus 10 she becomes alive and it's hard to get her of the balcony.
In my town some small businesses closed temporarily just because the new fancy electric cars didn't start in the cold weather, and neither did a good bit of newer gas/diesel or hybrid ones. We have a crummy old 90s wolkswagen and it just kept going like a champ, had to give loads of rides for friends and relatives that week lol. Tech fails surprisingly easily in the winter. The train system is notorious for barely functioning winter. I thankfully didn't have to go outside much but I did hang up a blanket in place of the normal curtains in the window because the cold was leaking in. This is why we have double or triple glass windows and why old houses with thinner ones or bad insulation are a pain in the ass. Good thing about the cold though? The balcony is a great freezer if you have any food that's about to go bad or beer that needs chilling. Greasy food helps with the cold a bit, I'm always like twice as hungry when it gets super cold. You just kind of adapt and embrace the caveman survival mentality.
No. No snow days. In the past like 30 years the airport near the Finnish capital has been closed for 30 minutes due to snow. When it gets to like -20 and under you really don't want to be outside any more, so when we do go out, we are pretty straight forward with it... Go and do what we need to do and get back inside.
It kind of makes sense that a country like Britain would close of if there is snow. Snow and cold is no problem, if you prepared: cars blowing snow, showels, winter tires, wool clothes with layers . I bet one of the mistakes Irish in Finland made was that he wore too small clothes. There needs to be air between clothing layers and if you have too small boots it doesn't really help if you have two pairs or three pairs of socks. Same goes to coats and sweaters etc.
Nope. Never a day off because of snow etc. from school. I think our out-door sports during gym class limit at school was -20 or -25 C depending on the sport (but this was during the 1980s, so might be less these days).
-30 degrees Celsius isn't unusual for me. I'm an Elder Millennial. I remember what winters in Finland used to be like in the 1900s!
But damn, that week really felt cold. I don't know why. Maybe there was moisture in the air.
As long as you're functional, keep moving but not too much, you can do bits of time outside in the cold. Then pop in, get warm, have a drink. Cold is different skiing in mid-Finland woods with no wind than out walking near the sea wind in South Finland. When you start losing body temp for some reason, you then feel nausea, hunger, fatigue, crankiness and may stop talking or tell others to go away, that you're ok. Taken to extremes, body temp under 34 degrees and lower the hypothermia flushes your last heat out of the body, making you sweaty and ppl actually remove their clothes, even all of them. Reaching 25 degrees your heart gives out. One should never get wet in the cold, that is a really bad thing.
Only once was the school closed. It happened after a snowstorm that caused an electricity blackout for some days. I walked halfway to the school on that day when my buddy walked to the other direction and told me that the school was closed. We walked back home and went to play outside.
minus thirty, it's not a reading in itself, and nothing here in Finland, well maybe somewhere in the most distant Finland it's already starting to get a reasonably hard frost, but it's still very common in winter here in Lapland. Every winter there are readings like that here. You get used to it, although sometimes it seems that especially the youth have gotten used to it a little too well, when the best almost run in summer camps even in the most severe frosts. There's nothing else to it, I guess, but sometimes I worry a lot in the winter for these young people. Those frostbite injuries are no joke.
Had a snow day once... It snowed like 1 meter over night. I think I was on second grade. I remember looking from my window in the morning and looking at this kids slide on our yard. Only the very tip of it was showing. Soon after our teacher called to tell that school was cancelled for today.
I used to work outside and I didn't skip work even on -33°c days. I had an option to stay home, but i just dressed warmly and got used to it, but afterwards I had problems inside if i had to Wear more than just shorts, because it was too hot 😅
when its hot or normal temperatures there is a ton of water vapor in the air and that hydrates your skin and airways surprisingly by a significant amount...
on the other hand when its that cold outside everything is dry and all that ice around your face is actually the moisture leaving your body as you exhale...
As a Finn who have lived in Belgium and Ireland I must say.... -5 in Brussels feels like -30 in Finland. The air is more dry up north so it doesn't feel that cold. I lived in Ireland during spring and summer and damn it was cold. House warming is so different to nordic countries... It was spring and summer and I was feeling cold when I went to sleep
I spent one summer in Torquay back in the day. I didn't feel cold when sleeping but it was hot summer then
-35 and we still went to school like it's nothing. The only thing that was different was the time between classes. We didn't have to go outside. But most kids did. I never have problems with -35 if I have warm shoes and good handwear. Just keep moving a little bit and stay dry.
Living in northern Finland. I went to near shop in shorts and T-shirt when we had that -32 here in January. Under 5min outside in -32 is nothing.
I'm mostly pissed off when my face starts to freeze so at -20C and below I tend to wear my commando hood. Then I get kids on the street pointing at me saying "look, he's probably rushing B"
I myself live in Finland and we were working on a construction site on the roof, even though it was -32 it seemed to be a bit cold 😄
I think that in northern finland they have to cancel school more often because the amount of snow there.
And about the phone, we put the phone in a wool sock or try to keep the phone close to the body so the battery doesn't run out
What does cold air feel like? You lose your sense of smell as soon as you go outside. Sometimes it feels to me like a smell something burning for a very small time. And mostly you only notice it once you go back in, to somewhere warm and your nose opens up again.
eh, when I i were a wee lass, i think it had to be about 30 degree negative to skip recess. In the army, we were not allowed to use our earmuffs unless it was below minus 20 degrees. Coldest night for me was about 30 degree negative, when my boot froze so badly that i had to have a squad mate tear my boots off me, since they where frozen to my heels.
As the @thekentaurion already pointed out, the winter of 1999 was incredibly cold. It only got down to about -45c⁰ where I lived, and my parents forced me to take my bike to school. That trip will live with me for the rest of my life. Gears were frozen, no breaks, the oil around the chain was almost a solid, and not a liquid at those temps.
I've seen a guy in shorts and a t-shirt in -5°C just chilling 😂 normal Finnish person
In extreme cold our body works a lot to keep us warm and our metabolism speeds up, that's why hydration is very important.
years ago I skied in central Finland and it was -30 C
We have SISU,so no minus degrees doesn't stops us..When I was in the army,With the wind ,it was -54...😅
This reminds me of an army tale... I was a group leader on one and when we finally should have stopped to camp we were given damp frozen logs to burn... well needless to say we slept in the cold that night. I woke up to all of my midsection pulling veins. after that hell i woke up enough to continue functioning and questioning why there was no fire in the tent. No surprise they couldn't get those frozen logs to ignite.
it was -29 degrees celcius at the time
No free days you will go to work/school and you will like it no matter what weather it is or how much snow there is.
you were scolded if you were late from school even if it was heavy snowstorm and by heavy i mean those crazy wall high snow dunes.
In december the -30 C day was the best to go play ice hockey, I had the rink all for myself. I admit I was a bit careless when getting out of breath and breathed too much through mouth which is not the greatest experience at -30 C. I swear it wasn't the mildest winter though. We had snow and good below zero temperatures for long periods of times. The last decade has been pested with black winters and rain, the weather going above freezing multiple times in the winter. This was about the best winter in my memory in a good while. And Oulu is much further north than where I live, Oulu has tougher winters.
Some lessons about winter clothing though: you start wearing the scarf when it gets towards freezing. Because there's bound to be windy weather below +10C inevidently. Particularly in Oulu that's located at the sea shore. It is pretty much always windy there. When it gets below -20C you start wearing the long pants (jockeys?) under, no matter if you're a person who wears them or not. And you don't wear jeans but like cargo pants or skiing pants, whatever they'd be called, the ones you use at downhill. And you wear those light cotton gloves under your mittens or some thinsulate type winter gloves. You probably wear woollen socks in your boots. And buy a good pair of boots. I had only my regular socks inside an ice skate in that -30 C and they didn't start going numb from the cold. Have space for them to move and fit your double socks without being tight. Allows circulation and insulating air layers. And you check that the edges like sleeves and pant legs are well protected so the cold air doesn't flow through against your bare skin. You might pull the scarf above your nose. Aside wearing your normal clothes like t-shirt and a hoodie or college shirt or whatever. That way you're gonna feel pretty warm throughout the day even if you spend prolonged times outside. It doesn't feel uncomfortable, it feels pretty cozy. And your winter jacket and pants are obviously not too small to wear with layers. Too many layers is also a thing if you don't choose them wisely. Because you're gonna just get sweaty from the layers not breathing. Then it's gonna feel like wearing latex suit, like a sauna inside your clothes, exhausting, no way to let that heat and humidity out.
The battery thing can really get you, even I forget it every winter. When I went to play ice hockey, I tried recording a bit of skating and shots and listened to music and it probably lasted like 15 minutes. It's better in the pocket but it still runs fast compared to what you're used to.
Personally I think having a beard in the winter time is the best thing you can do. I specifically don't shave in the winter just because I don't want to start protecting my face when it gets very cold.
Just my personal opinion but I'll take -30C before +30C. In Finland there's no way to escape if the summer gets as hot as +30 C all the way up to +35 C (which it has done regularly in the last decade, I don't think it used to be a thing in my youth). You can't turn the heating off more than it has, if you have the windows/balcony door open you ruin the designed airflow, if you don't you just feel like being in a sauna, the warm still air surrounds you. After the sun starts to go down you might think now's the time to enjoy some nightly breeze. Nope, the sun has heated up the walls so that even though the night air might feel even cold, maybe it's only +10 C, the walls are radiating so much heat it still feels about as hot as +30 C, I recall it was often around +28 C at night inside. In the winter the houses are designed to keep the heat and the radiators are working so the room temperature stays nice (caveat being where you live, you might be living in an old house with no renovations done or the landlord not heating it up properly) and only when you leave outside you have to consider it, and you can still dress up if it's slightly colder inside.
But it's also slightly unfair to compare like Finland and the UK about snow. For Finland it's the normal thing to get a full winter every year so it's not something to prepare for, it's normal procedure. Whereas in those countries it's an out of ordinary event. Here in Finland it's normal town maintenance to have snowplows running at night/early morning and evening for example. But yeah I haven't ever heard of school being canceled for weather. I read in the comments someone had experienced that because their school building was old and improperly maintained. But in normal circumstances no. I once had half a day off in high school, but that was just because I didn't see any buses coming and I saw one of them in the ditch because it snowed so heavily out of nowhere that night and morning. So we just sat at my friend's playing video games until noon and then we noticed we had a bus going and went to school.
The tip about being hydrated was gold nuggets though. Never even think about that myself usually. In very hot and cold environments the body doesn't signal for hydration quite as well as it normally does, so you in fact can drink a bit more than your body suggests. And you probably should too. It's actually something you learn in the military service, always keep hydrated so you stay warm and effective.
We had -38 for almost a week at January. When there was “only” -28 in thermometer at Saturday morning, I get my snowmobile and went to nearest town 30km away for my morning coffee. Well, there was still -33 when I get there, and there’s few lakes to cross on the way, and I heard there was -40 at the biggest lake that morning. But I got my coffee, drove back home, and got some great photos that morning. Next winter I hope to drive more in those conditions. 😁
Past 10 years we have had 3(can not confirm the third year atm. like what year) winters with -30C or colder (2006 there was -32 where i lived at a time and it was next to sea with over 20m sec wind).
Yeah 18 hours working outside with -32C is a bit mutch(personal experience).
(corrected the 2006 temp to -32 from -34, 43 was our country cold record)
In Finnish schools, there is no official frost limit, but spending recess and exercise classes outside is always assessed on a school or municipality basis. Some schools are not satisfied with just staring at the temperature gauge, but also use the frost biting index, which takes into account the effect of the wind, in the evaluation.
When I went to school in Sweden there was a blizzard so it was dangerous to be outside, school was cancelled. During my 12 years at school it happened once.
I have never had any days off of school because of weather or such and I have never heard that being a thing either. Nowadays I believe there are limits where you are not forced to go outside every recess like -25 or something and there are less recess as well. I have never had that and we had a recess every hour, mandatory outside time.
I have never had a day off because of the weather. But I've heard that my fathers generation had so cold that they've got a day off. So I guess there is a limit, it's just really high (or low, as temperatures go below zero).
And I actually like the really cold days. Things look really magical then, just like a winter wonderland from a painting. Later at the evening/night the street lights form these pillars of light, as the light reflect from the ice cristallyzing from the moisture in the air. That doesn't happen at -10 or even -15, I think you need well over -20 to that to happen. Those really cold days also don't last very long, usually only a couple of days, maybe a week at most, so you get those milder -10 days soon enough, which feels almost warm after the really cold days. And those crisp cold days beat those +3 weathers any day, I hate when the snow melts into slush (loska), and when it freezes over again it is either really smooth and slippery, or on very nasty grooves so its hard to drive a car or ride a bike on it.
Of course somewhere between -10 and -15 is the ideal winter temperature, but if I had to choose, I'd rather have colder than milder days.
Just something random to notice, you know those electric cars, yes they are not very handy climates like this. I mean taxi drivers in Finland are pushed to use only electric cars. I use a lot of taxis and all drivers say the electric cars do not work in cold climates, take ages to load and then not too long need load again. And customers expect the car is warm obviously. Well then the engine runs out even more quickly. Luckily many uses diesel cars because well, the electric ones do not work even when its -20 degrees
The phone does not go "Down" it just can not access the electrons from the batery element thay efficently and so it thinks battery is low, actually it has the charge but it outputs litle of it due to the cold.
I went to Helsinki in May in 2007, and it was -7 in the evening.
ahh yes, a nice and warm spring evening 🤣
its been like 20 years or so when it been that cold in finland. sure there are -30c weather in every winter in lapland but that its -30c every where its been 20years or so. and then it was -52c in lapland. but never have i even heard that there is no school because of weather. and i havent experienced it when i was school age.
2011 January was really cold tho, a lot colder than the extremes now. Atleast in Southwest of FInland
Tip, carry matches (even if you don't smoke) busses and cars may stop (Diesel easier) in those temperatures and gas lighters won't work. Keep electronic things close to your body warmth
-47,5 in the Finnish Lapland is my personal record 😊
this winter the coldest was -28 celsius in my city at finland. And this is what i wore during the coldest period: Jeans, regular socks, airforces, t shirt, hoodie and an puffer on top of that, new jersey fitted cap and no gloves😂
-35 is so cold that if you dont get inside you will just die. Specially if its windy. There is no clothing that can keep you warm for long period of time. One hour starts to be deadly if you aint doing some serious workout like skiing etc. If you just stand you will lose finger, nose etc….
-30 is not even that cold if you know to dress right. If his toes were freezing that suggests that he wore wrong kind of socks or the socks were worn the wrong way. And the beard thing - I like doing that for show but besides that, wear a scarf over you face. Even though sometimes the beard freezes to the scarf in some occasions, the ice melts very quickly when you go indoors.
My 8 year old kid walked to school in that weather and didn't even complain about the cold because we get used to it. She even slept outside in daytime as a baby every day regardles the temperature. It is all about layering the right way.
Cold itself is not that bad with proper clothing, cold combined with wind is. Wind multiplies the effect by conducting the heat away and stripping away the warmer air cushion you develop around you from your bodyheat. -30 with even moderate wind is way worse than calm weather. If you have clothing that doesn't let wind in you need way less clothing in cold weather.
-30c is not very cold, more like normal winter day. -40 is cold. I has been winterfishing when it was -33 and there wasnt any problem to stay out whatever light we had that day + walking on fishing spot. One thing what everyone should be aware is not do anything what get you very winded when below -28. It may damage your lungs permanently. Usually that not happening in -28 but its possible even when its not colder than that. However when its like -40 it surely will happening. Right cloths and you can stay outside hours in below -30. Clothing is the key thing here.
How does -30 Celcius feel like? At first it's really really cold, no surprises there, but after the cold it begins to burn and hurt. Imagine like putting your hand under running tap that's set to hot. After the burn it gets cold again and after that you beging to get numb.
When should you begin to worry? Right when you start feeling cold, that's first warning sign your doing something wrong, your not wearing enough layers.
Im outside worker. -30 week is not bad and I dont feel as much coldness as in fall when is near 0 its raining sideways. Those days I would like to just be inside. I would fill up that you need to drink but also remember to eat More than normal or you feel cold.
Freezer is about -19 °C. In my childhood 90's we had about -38°C and we walked to school every day. -32°C is normal in Finland.
There is no "snowdays". I remember that we didn't have to go skiing during sports when it was under -25c. I remember maybe once school was cancelled because of a winter storm and the hole town was out of electricity including the school.
I remember one damn sunday morning back in 1980's. I had finished my night shift at 7:00 in the morning. Of course there was no buses on sunday that early in the morning and I had no money for a taxi, so I did what I had to do: walk home. Unfortunately it was the coldest day I've seen in this town! -30 or lower and a 3/4 hour walk. I had prepared as well as I could so I had double layers of clothing so I survived (apparently). It was Hell.
wearing many layers of socks can actually make your cold insulation worse, if it gets too tight inside the shoe.
When I was little kid going to school no matter how much snow you go to school and there wasn't thing called too cold to go to school 😂
In the 80’s we did not have to go outside during breaks when it was under -30. Still we had to walk to school but i dont remember never having a memory of the weather being too cold or feeling cold. And yeah, snow days, nope.
Finnish army it was -42 'C at guard duty and we were camping -30'C. -30'C was like heat wave. Honest it is nothing.
Yeah right...
-30 is pretty cold but not the worst. You get used to the weather pretty quickly when you live here. It's hilarious to me that -10 would do something like that to a country :D I'd consider that to be the average winter. Like -10/-20. Not that bad even tho cold weather is kinda annoying to deal with in general.
When I was a kid, we used to go out skating when it was below -30. One might wonder why, but back in the 1970's there was not that much to do. We went skating, because the reason why skates glide on the ice is that the pressure under the narrow blade turns the ice into water and water on ice, as we know, is slippery. That is why you can skate. At -30 degrees this no longer happens. The cold ice remains ice - and that is hilarious. Kids that can skate well suddenly cannot, it feels really funny and you laugh at your friends that are so clumsy and keep falling.
No, not even once in my life did school get cancelled because of weather. The coldest temperature I have experienced was -38, and I remember my dad coming into my room with a candle to wake me up for school, and saying that the power had been out for a couple of hours because of the extreme cold.
Bro i remember when i gone at -22°c with shorts and a t-shirt outside to take out the trash