Tudor Hughes wrote in message
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Phil Layton wrote:
I am used to seeing ice at the Northern (top) end of the Gulf of
Bothnia at
this time of year, but is it unusual to see the ice around Aland and the
Finnish Islands west of Turku ? Seems not much further to go before the
ice
reaches Sweden!
http://saturn.unibe.ch/rsbern/noaa/d...00/n1bcurr.jpg
(NOAA18 1148Z)
The link above may not work when it gets updated!
Phil

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www.layton.me.uk/meteo.htm

I can't correlate that pic with the Finnish chart at
http://www.fimr.fi/en/itamerinyt/jaatilanne.html nor with the one
produced by the Swedish Hydrological Institute. They both show the
Baltic (including the Gulf of Bothnia) entirely frozen down to the
latitude of Stockholm.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.


If you click on the pdf (on the link you gave) the ice in the southern
baltic is not
100% cover (7-8/10) so perhaps that would explain the satellite picture ?

Martin