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

There is a noaa18 HRPT image of the Gulf Bothnia on my web page from just
before midday today. The ice covered areas are not in doubt. The areas you
mention, Phil, are usually joined by ice at this time of year and before.
http://www.btinternet.com/~wokingham...1157-c-fi.html

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Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Satellite images at:
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html
"Phil Layton" wrote in message
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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

Thanks Bernard for the image. There's obviously ice floating in the Northern
part that looks like water - I guess the 'while solid' areas is ice with
snow cover. I just wondered if the persistent cold of this Winter had led to
more ice there than usual.
Phil

Hi Phil

Detailed daily charts he

http://www.smhi.se/en/index.htm


Click on 'forecasts and observations', then 'Iceservice'


Karl Cooper, Orkney

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