ALMOST 71,000 Finnish households were without power at midnight after a winter storm pummelled areas stretching from the south-western coast to eastern parts of North Ostrobothnia, according to a power outage map from Finnish Energy.
Paavo Korpela, a meteorologist on duty at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), said to Helsingin Sanomat yesterday evening that the number of households affected by power outages could rise over 100,000 before dawn breaks.
