[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch Finns are used to these ups and downs, there are plenty of memes in the internet about the seasons.



Hopefully the harvest won't be affected too much. If it was just a brief drop then the trees may still bounce back.

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka I wonder why Finns are not burning winter 24/7 the way things are. But I think I now understand the desire to do so better.

It is not so much about the trees than flowers. They fall because of the cold, but for the flower to turn into a fruit, it needs to be pollinated. And if flowers fall due to cold, that will not happen.

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch Yeah, it was a bit of a mental shortcut from me. I meant that mildly frostbitten flowers don't always fall, they can survive with some brown specks.

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka Hopefully we can get away with just that. We'll just have to wait and see.

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch The weather suddenly switched to summer and everybody is melting already. The Finland subreddit is even having a meltdown.

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka Oh my. How hot is it exactly? And by subreddit you mean people or hardware?

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch People are complaining about summer already and that it is allegedly impossible to survive Finnish summer.

And the "tropical" weather is just barely 20 degrees. 😂

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka What is so bad about Finnish summer?

[Saka]

@DoctorEldritch Humidity. The sun is really intense and makes the lakes evaporate then that water all goes in the air. You end up being all sticky even when sitting indoors and doing nothing. It's actually a little bit outside if you can catch some wind.

Personally I don't have big issues with the summer, but it's very annoying when gaming, it's not uncommon to need a shower few times per day. Some people are not taking the humidity well though. A friend of mine from India said that 25 degrees in our city was worse than 45 in her homeland. Just really sticky and sometimes hard to breathe.

[DoctorEldritch]

@Saka That is true, humidity is not comfortable. Though in certain situations can be healthy. Here is a bit of trivia from my homeland for you, for example.

My parents live in a resort city called Jurmala, literally translated as "Seashore". And it is a resort because it has an unusual geographical location, there are not that many places in the world like that. It is on the shore but has a river that runs parallel to the sea for some length, with the city being squeezed between the river and the sea. And behind the river, there is a big bog.



This creates an unusual effect. In Summer, the wind blows in the air from the sea, rich with salt and iodine. The city is filled with pine trees and in summer they heat up and release pine aroma into the air as well, which gets mixed with the sea air. However, because the river and bog are evaporating, the raising steam creates an "air wall" that is preventing all that salt-iodine-pine healthy air from moving further into the land, it stays in the city. This mix is good for lung health, so in the past, it was a popular resort for lung conditions. Not so much these days, though.

But this also creates quite a humid effect as there is little "air movement" happening, so summers can feel like aromatic steam saunas sometimes. Though it is not always comfortable, it is supposedly healthy for you.

So I would suggest that, if you can't escape the humidity, maybe find a pine forest nearby?