Barring any possible major late snowstorms, this past winter has brought little snow to most parts of Finland. As a result, lake water levels are on track to be even lower next summer than they were last year.
Groundwater levels are now lower than usual, especially in Savo, North and South Karelia, Central Finland and Pirkanmaa.
The situation has been exacerbated by the early, sudden onset of spring and an underlying drought that has been continuing in Eastern Finland for a second year. The usual spring flood peak, or highest water level, has come more than a month earlier than normal this spring.
TinyAd1126 on
Low-snow winter? In Helsinki we had 30 cm of snow through the winter, and in Lapland they had one meter of snow couple of weeks ago. Don’t know about this article, but news are nowadays quite often totally out of touch of any hint of reality.
Right now we have a very little amount of snow, because we have an early spring, which started a month ago. But it is not a low-snow winter. It is a low-snow spring. That’s what a spring is. It has rained also in Helsinki region during this spring. If The Lake region of Eastern Finland has a little amount of snow right now and drought, it is a dry spring in Eastern Finland, which is a relatively normal situation because Eastern Finland has a Continental Climate.
glitterdunk on
Oh no. With the oil crisis and already many years of struggling crops in many countries, we *really* don’t need Europe to have failing crops this year.
I hope the rest of Europe has a good year when it comes to farming!
witopps on
It has to be low precipitation, not low snow specifically, right?
It shouldn’t matter if it rains down as water (like last December). The water should still pool in the lakes all the same, just earlier (skip waiting for spring thaw).
So is the news actually that we’ve had a dry winter?
Dewlin9000000 on
Last year was very wet so maybe dry summer is this years thing.
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Barring any possible major late snowstorms, this past winter has brought little snow to most parts of Finland. As a result, lake water levels are on track to be even lower next summer than they were last year.
Groundwater levels are now lower than usual, especially in Savo, North and South Karelia, Central Finland and Pirkanmaa.
The situation has been exacerbated by the early, sudden onset of spring and an underlying drought that has been continuing in Eastern Finland for a second year. The usual spring flood peak, or highest water level, has come more than a month earlier than normal this spring.
Low-snow winter? In Helsinki we had 30 cm of snow through the winter, and in Lapland they had one meter of snow couple of weeks ago. Don’t know about this article, but news are nowadays quite often totally out of touch of any hint of reality.
Right now we have a very little amount of snow, because we have an early spring, which started a month ago. But it is not a low-snow winter. It is a low-snow spring. That’s what a spring is. It has rained also in Helsinki region during this spring. If The Lake region of Eastern Finland has a little amount of snow right now and drought, it is a dry spring in Eastern Finland, which is a relatively normal situation because Eastern Finland has a Continental Climate.
Oh no. With the oil crisis and already many years of struggling crops in many countries, we *really* don’t need Europe to have failing crops this year.
I hope the rest of Europe has a good year when it comes to farming!
It has to be low precipitation, not low snow specifically, right?
It shouldn’t matter if it rains down as water (like last December). The water should still pool in the lakes all the same, just earlier (skip waiting for spring thaw).
So is the news actually that we’ve had a dry winter?
Last year was very wet so maybe dry summer is this years thing.