Mika Rantanen
Researcher in Weather and Climate Change Impact Research in Finnish Meteorological Institute. PhD in meteorology.
- New research on windstorms and their impacts for Finland from my colleagues! Láng-Ritter et al. (2025) show that windstorms arriving from NW are the most damaging (per windstorm basis), but windstorms arriving from SW cause the most damage in total. nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
- Bad news for birdwatchers: persistent northerly/northeasterly winds will prevail in the Gulf of Finland for at least the next 7-9 days. Favourable weather for the Arctic migration is not expected until the weekend of next week.
- A typical sight in May evening in the weather radar –based bird migration product: a mass migration of waterfowl heading northeast along the Vyborg Bay towards Russian tundra. Today, it was the turn of common scoters (Melanitta nigra). ilmu.fmi.fi/realtime?lan...
