Fucksticks.
Blustery conditions
Tabloid Iltasanomat covered a strong thunderstorm front that arrived from the west late on Sunday evening.
The weather system was accompanied by gusts of up to 40 metres per second in sea areas, one of the highest wind speeds ever recorded in Finland.
The storm front passed over the southern coast of Finland from Hankoniemi eastwards at midnight.
Eveliina Tuominen, meteorologist on duty at the Finnish Meteorological Institute, said that strong wind gusts on the south coast have blown down trees.
A low pressure system is forecast to extend over Finland, and winds will continue to be strong in maritime areas. In the early morning, coastal winds were around 19 metres per second.
The weather in the coming week will be mainly cloudy but cool.
By Tuesday, new showers will develop in the southern and central parts of the country.
From Wednesday onwards, the weather will be clear across most of the country and temperatures may dip below 10 degrees in the south. Isolated snow showers may occur in northern Finland.
Meanwhile, it’s already hailed twice this morning in northern Indiana (USA).
And the first floods of the flooding season here.
Which are not usually just climate related to be fair. They are because we’ve drained our wetlands and stripped the highlands of natural vegetation for pasture instead. Which kills the rivers and floods the towns.
So, human-origin climate change, local edition?
Oct. 19 (UPI) – The increase in global emissions of carbon dioxide could’ve been triple what it was from last year if not for major deployments of renewable energy technologies and electric vehicles, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday.
Finland has been felling its forests at a record pace in recent years, according to tabloid Iltalehti (IL).
With Russo-Finnish trade eroded and an energy crisis in full swing, the demand for domestic wood is growing at a rapid rate.
At the same time, recent research has revealed a worrying trend as a rapidly declining forest growth has hampered the ability of Finland’s forests to absorb carbon dioxide, the paper writes.
Forests play a significant role in achieving Finland’s climate goals by operating as a carbon sink for emissions that cannot be eliminated.
Research professor at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Aleksi Lehtonen, told IL he is growing increasingly pessimistic about Finland’s dedication to reach the climate targets set both by the country itself and the EU.
“Achieving them would require quite massive means,” Lehtonen told IL.
Iltalehti asked experts what those means could be. The paper found that Finland’s options include increasing carbon sinks by exercising more control over the agriculture and forestry sectors and reducing emissions from another sector. However, if the EU target is not reached, the state could opt to buy other countries’ carbon credits.
“If the government suggested radical proposals and solutions to Metsähallitus’ governing guidance, or set up a massive support network, which would add carbon sinks on private land, then maybe we could reach our goals,” Lehtonen said.
Rising temps & rising water temp due to the lower water level probably expanded the bugs habitat.
This bastard is being seen as far north as Maine now. Ridiculous range expansion. Also scary as hell. No viable treatment, almost universally fatal. Just another climate change gift…
Naegleria fowleri had been reported in some of the hot springs below Hoover dam for quite some time, including a death back in the '90s IIRC. But this is the first I recall having heard of it in the lake itself…
Yippee! /s
