Finland sees First Flakes of the Season, La Niña Update, + They’re Resurrecting Woolly Mammoths “To Stop Climate Change”
September 14, 2021 Cap Allon
Finland sees First Flakes of the Season
The first ice crystals of the season fell in Finnish Lapland on Monday, reports yle.fi.
Totals of 2cm (0.8 inches) covered the village of Näkkälä in Enontekiö, northwest Lapland on Monday morning, September 13:
However, because of the way the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) documents snowfall, Monday’s flakes don’t officially qualify as the first of the season as they occurred after 9AM.
I couldn’t find the exact reason as to why this is — the closet I got is the this statement on the FMI’s website: “In Finland, the first snow cover is considered to have happened on the day when there is measurable snow in the morning observation (06 UTC).”
https://electroverse.net/finland-sees-first-snow-la-nina-theyre-resurrecting-woolly-mammoths/
