Lieksa
Lieksa | |
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Town | |
| Lieksan kaupunki Lieksa stad | |
 Town center of Lieksa | |
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Population by age | |
| • 0 to 14 | 9.9% |
| • 15 to 64 | 52% |
| • 65 or older | 38.1% |
| Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
| Website | www |
Lieksa (Finnish pronunciation:
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
The town of Lieksa was established in 1973 when the Market town of Lieksa and the Municipality of Pielisjärvi were consolidated.
Geography
Neighbouring municipalities are Ilomantsi, Joensuu, Juuka, Kontiolahti, Kuhmo and Nurmes.
Populated places
Populated places within Lieksa include:
Climate
Lieksa has a subarctic climate (Köppen: Dfc), 0.7°C away from the threshold of the humid continental climate. Lieksa has more continental characteristics than most of Scandinavia and Finland, making it prone to extreme temperatures, especially in winter. In summer temperatures regularly exceed 20.0 °C (68.0 °F), and the highest temperature ever recorded was 35.6 °C (96.1 °F) in July 1934. Also, during the Heatwave of 2010, the temperature in Lieksa reached 35.4 °C (95.7 °F) degrees. In winter, the snow cover is usually around 60 cm deep. On a typical winter night, the temperature drops to around −15.0 °C (5.0 °F) and readings as low as −30.0 °C (−22.0 °F) are not unusual. The coldest temperature ever observed in Lieksa was −47.0 °C (−52.6 °F) in December 1919.[6]
| Climate data for Lieksa, 1991-2020 normals, extremes 1916-present | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 6.7 (44.1) |
6.6 (43.9) |
11.6 (52.9) |
23.6 (74.5) |
30.2 (86.4) |
31.8 (89.2) |
35.6 (96.1) |
31.9 (89.4) |
24.3 (75.7) |
18.4 (65.1) |
10.4 (50.7) |
7.6 (45.7) |
35.6 (96.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −6 (21) |
−5.5 (22.1) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
6.2 (43.2) |
13.7 (56.7) |
18.8 (65.8) |
21.7 (71.1) |
19.2 (66.6) |
13.3 (55.9) |
5.8 (42.4) |
0.1 (32.2) |
−3.4 (25.9) |
7.0 (44.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −9.4 (15.1) |
−9.4 (15.1) |
−4.7 (23.5) |
1.5 (34.7) |
8.4 (47.1) |
13.8 (56.8) |
16.6 (61.9) |
14.3 (57.7) |
9.3 (48.7) |
3.2 (37.8) |
−2 (28) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
3.0 (37.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −13.4 (7.9) |
−13.9 (7.0) |
−9.6 (14.7) |
−3.2 (26.2) |
2.8 (37.0) |
8.3 (46.9) |
11.4 (52.5) |
9.6 (49.3) |
5.4 (41.7) |
0.7 (33.3) |
−4.6 (23.7) |
−9.4 (15.1) |
−1.3 (29.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −41.8 (−43.2) |
−42.4 (−44.3) |
−38.8 (−37.8) |
−21.4 (−6.5) |
−15.0 (5.0) |
−6.5 (20.3) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
−7.8 (18.0) |
−21.5 (−6.7) |
−30.5 (−22.9) |
−47.0 (−52.6) |
−47.0 (−52.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 55 (2.2) |
46 (1.8) |
43 (1.7) |
37 (1.5) |
55 (2.2) |
75 (3.0) |
93 (3.7) |
83 (3.3) |
76 (3.0) |
76 (3.0) |
67 (2.6) |
66 (2.6) |
772 (30.6) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 21 | 18 | 16 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 201 |
| Source 1: FMI[7] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: FMI (record highs and lows)[8] | |||||||||||||
Notable natives
- Heino Kaski (1885–1957), composer
- Mira Jalosuo (born 1989), Olympic ice hockey medalist
- Ilmari Juutilainen (1914–1999), top flying ace of the Finnish Air Force
- Jorma J. Rissanen(1933–2020), information theorist
- Diet of Japan
- Heikki Turunen (born 1945), author
See also
References
- ^ a b "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Immigration record high in Finland in 2023". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ "Demographic Structure by area as of 31 December 2022". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
- ^ "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
- ^ a b "Luettelo kuntien ja seurakuntien tuloveroprosenteista vuonna 2023". Tax Administration of Finland. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
- ^ https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/15734/2009nro8.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "FMI normals 1981-2010" (PDF). FMI. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ "FMI open data". FMI. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
External links
Lieksa travel guide from Wikivoyage
Media related to Lieksa at Wikimedia Commons- Town of Lieksa – Official site
- Pocket Facts
- Lieksa daily photo – Unofficial daily photo
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