As the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest is drawing nearer and nearer, the esctoday.com team is getting ready (and restless) to close the suitcases and fly to Helsinki to cover the event for you. Equipment is being checked (and rechecked and triple-checked), plans are laid out and dreams are dreamt.

Our first team members have already been on location since Friday 27 April and the first photographs have started coming in. Click here to see the first gallery of the outside of the Hartwall Areena and stay tuned as we keep on reporting live for you from Helsinki.

Now, for those of you who will be joining us in the Finnish capital for the contest,here's a ten day weather forecast to help you make up your mind on what to pack so as to be best prepared for the weather conditions awaiting you:

High/Low Celcius High/Low Fahreneit
Tonight April 29 : 0°, Partly cloudy 32°
Monday April 30: 9°/0° Partly Cloudy 48°/32°
Tuesday May 1 : 10°/0° Mostly sunny 50°/32°
Wednesday May 2: 12°/1°Mostly cloudy 53°/34°
Thursday May 3: 13°/2° Partly cloudy 55°/36°
Friday May 4: 11°/2°Partly cloudy 51°/36°
Saturday May 5:12°/3° Partly cloudy 53°/38°
Sunday May 6:12°/5° Mostly sunny 54°/41°
Monday May 7:13°/5° Showers 55°/41°
Tuesday May 8:13/6Showers 56°/42°