Radio Selkouutiset Saturday 23 December 2023
Christmas traffic. Flights late. Store shelters. Weather.
Christmas traffic
Christmas traffic on the roads has been calm on Saturday. There were no bad traffic jams anywhere in Finland. Many people traveled to celebrate Christmas already on Friday.
The roads had the most traffic in the afternoon. The driving weather has been bad in many places due to the snowfall.
Flights are late
Due to the snowfall, the flights are also late.
At Helsinki-Vantaa airport, many flights have been way behind schedule. In the morning, the flight from Rovaniemi to Helsinki was completely cancelled.
Finnair says that Friday’s snowfall still affected flight schedules on Saturday.
Store shelters
In the capital region, a new method is being tried, the purpose of which is to increase the safety of grocery store sellers.
For example, in Vantaa, a transparent booth has been built at the cash desk of some stores to protect the shop assistant.
The Trade Union and the Service Industry Trade Union PAM say that customers behave badly towards store salespeople more often than before. The organizations believe that the shop assistant is safer than before when there is a protective booth around the cash register.
News week in plain Finnish
In January, the new radio program Uutisviikko in clear Finnish will start. The program always focuses on one important news topic.
2 Uutisvikko programs are made every week. They are broadcast on Saturday and Sunday on Radio Finland at 21:12.
In Yle Areena and at the website you can listen to the programs whenever you want.
1. Uutisvikko in Finnish will be broadcast on Saturday, January 13.
From January, weekday clear news will be broadcast on television.
Weather
Another weather report.
At first, it will snow in places. At night or in the morning, the snowfall will gradually stop. Tomorrow’s Christmas Eve weather will be cloudy in a large part of Finland.
The temperature is between +1 and -4, in the northern part of the country between -4 and -10 degrees. In northern Lapland, it is initially as cold as 25 degrees.
Driving weather is bad in a large part of the country. The wind is strong in sea areas.