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CLIMATE For weather information in Estonia, click here . Here is the best resource, we also check from here (set for Tallinn)... The climate in Estonia is characterized by a fairly cold winter, a cool spring with little precipitation, a moderately warm summer and a long and rainy autumn. However, some summers have weeks at a stretch of temperatures around +30° C, and a warm, sunny summer can keep autumn at bay until mid-October. Estonia lies in the northern part of the temperate climate zone and in the transition zone between maritime and continental climate. The Baltic Sea causes differences between the climate of coastal and inland areas. But as Estonia is small country, these differences are not drastic. The average annual temperature in Estonia is 5 °C. The average temperature in February, the coldest month of the year, is -5.2 °C. The average temperature in July, which is considered the warmest month of the year, is 18 °C. It is not unusual, however, that the temperature rises to 30 degrees in summers. Lowest temperature ever recorded is -44 °C and the highest has been + 36 degrees. Estonia's area of 45 227 km2 is similar to that of the Netherlands, but the population (1.4 million) is ten times smaller. Estonia has more than 1 500 islands, 1 000 lakes (5 percent of the Estonian territory), 7 000 rivers and streams. Bogs and wooded swamplands of different types cover over one fifth of the country As in other northern countries, seasons vary widely in Estonia. The length of the longest day in summer is over 19 hours, while the shortest winter day lasts only six hours. It is not completely dark at night from the beginning of May until the end of July. Estonia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea, is at the same latitude in Europe as central Sweden and the northern tip of Scotland. In North America, the middle latitude of Estonia passes through the Labrador peninsula and southern coast of Alaska. However, due to the influence of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf Stream, the weather in Estonia is considerably milder than the continental climate characteristic of the same latitude. The temperature in the summer months (June–September) is typically 15…18ºC; in winter, –4…–5ºC. Although it doesn't always snow in winter, there tends to be about 10 cm of snow on the ground consistently from late December through to the beginning of March.
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