"There’s never been a hurricane in Finland and there never will be," meteorologist Lea Saukkonen of the FMI told Yle's morning TV on Tuesday.
According to Saukkonen, Finland’s chilly climate is keeping it out of the path of hurricanes.
"You need thick layers of warm water, warmer than 26 degrees Celsius," she explained of hurricane mechanics.
But Finland could experience large storms coming out of hurricanes, such as Mauri which swept over Lapland in 1982. The Finnish typhoon, a remnant of Atlantic hurricane Debby, claimed two lives and damaged buildings, boats and forests in its path.
