Do people in your area really get out and enjoy the weather?

[irlinit]

In summer people do, yes. Just drove back from town and although it is a pretty cool day today relative to normal, it is sunny and people are in the park, walking about, lying in the parks catching some sun still

[Ariete]

Sure. Here, it depends much also on the time of the year. You see a lot of people walking and jogging until the leaves fall, which is late October. After that it gets rainy, foggy, windy and the days are short, so from November-mid January people usually just tuck themselves in and don't go out at all. Except maybe around Christmastime when they are attending markets and on shopping sprees. But without snow, even that is a bit depressing.

But come mid January, people surface beneath their blankets and woolen socks and come out. Usually by that time there's already snow on the ground, so people go skiing, skating and just walking. Skiing (both cross-country and downhill) is one of the most recreational pastimes in Finland, and you have people playing hockey in every ice rink there is. Almost all kids like to go sledding, and they are often building ramps, tracks and such from dawn to dusk in every hill you can find. In February the ice is strong enough to hold human weight, so on a sunny February weekend you'll see a lot of people walking, sledding and ice fishing on the Baltic and on lakes.

Now when the summer has been great, some people start looking like hobos when they practically have been outside for a month, just going to sleep inside. Here in Turku where the main city recreational area is the river banks, they have practically been packed every day it has been warm. Café and restaurant patios as well, usually all the way until closing time. Usually starts on the first warm day of spring.

So yes, people are out enjoying the weather every time it's feasible.

[Caleb Yeung]

Yes. People travel around the city 24/7/365 no matter what the weather is like.