Last week in Enontekiö I got amazed, on how quickly approximately 30 cm of snow can melt away: It was really an abrupt warming, that let the quicksilver jump up to the 10°C line for days. In combination with some additional rain, the rest of the snow cover was washed away pretty fast, leaving only a few white spots in-between the trees.
A few days later and about 300 km downstream of Ounasjoki, where the river is flowing into the Kemijoki river, I became witness of the outcome of such a quick thawing: In Rovaniemi (but also in other places) the amount of water was a bit too much for the river(s), flooding some roads and houses. Attached I have a few impressions, how Kemijoki looked yesterday (the 21st of May), when the water level reached its maximum in Rovaniemi.
Nice to see someone else blogging from Lapland. Maybe I’ll bump into you in a laavu sometime!