Poutaista

Poutaista is a Finnish adjective form meaning sunny or fair-weather, used to describe weather conditions that are dry, with clear skies and little or no rain. It derives from the noun pouta, which denotes pleasant, dry weather, and the suffix -ista, which forms adjectives indicating a quality or kind of something. In standard usage, poutaista operates in phrases that describe weather or atmospheric conditions.

The word is commonly found in everyday speech and in weather reporting, especially when the speaker or writer wants to convey pleasant, dry conditions. It often appears with nouns in the partitive or in context of weather nouns, such as säätä (weather) or keliä (conditions). For example, sentences like “viikonlopuksi on poutaista” or “ennuste lupaa poutaista keliä” are typical. The term emphasizes a positive, dry, bright quality of the weather, rather than merely the absence of rain.

Related terms include pouta, the base noun for the concept of fair weather, and more general weather descriptors like hyvä sää (good weather) or selkeä sää (clear weather). In practice, poutaista is a concise way to express favorable, sunny conditions and is particularly common in forecasts, news reports, and conversational descriptions of forecasted weather.

See also: pouta, sää, sääennuste, keli.