Update

I take it all back. The Estonian Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology has forecast an entire week of glorious beach weather, with temperatures in the mid to high 20s - and possibly as much as 30 - Monday through Sunday. But beach goers beware: the Baltic remains awash with dangerous blue-green algae! Still, if you can't swim you'll at least be able to appreciate the irony.

¡Cuidado, procariotes!

The Swedish Bureau of Meteorology has issued a stark warning to beach bums along the north coast of Estonia that the waters of the Baltic Sea are seeing one of the most ghastly proliferations of blue-green algae in recorded history!

This is grave confirmation indeed of the predictions made by Finnish scientists in May that the choking mass of algae (more correctly referred to as 'prokaryotes') in the Baltic this summer would be significantly more choking than this time last year.

Thankfully, with the country's traditional handful of days in which the water temperature is slightly above that which induces almost instant hypothermia already behind it, few are likely to be troubled by the peculiar pea soup phenomenon. But there's always next year!