Intro Blog: Finland

  Finland's weather is usually pretty calm with high moisture but during the winter months the weather can take a turn to the harsher side.  Finland is known for its long cold winters especially in the northern part of the country where it is considered to have a tundra type climate.  The lowest recorded temperature in Finland was -60.7 degrees Fahrenheit.  Finland experiences extreme amounts of rain especially in the months of July and August.  This extreme amount of rainfall has caused many floods especially in places with low amounts of vegetation.  Finland also has high amounts of snow in the months of March and in Northern Finland April.   The Mitigation process for these extreme months and the extreme weather is making sure things are sanitized and that people have a good water supply, having flood protection (embanking shorelines, dredging rivers, and regulating watercourse levels).  The government spends a lot of time and money to make sur...

  Finland is not known to have many landslides but they have occurred.  According to Think Hazard  Finland is labeled as a very low threat to landslides.  Finland does have rainfall patterns, there terrain and slope, and also possibly earthquakes can make landslides a rare phenomenon if this hazard does occur.  Northern Finland has a larger amount of landslides due to its amount of rainfall and also the amount of seismic activity that occurs there.  According to ScienceDirect  the amount of landslides has increased to a total number of 121 landslides in Northern Finland since the introduction of the systematic screening of LiDAR DEMs by Palmu et al in 2015.   With how rare landslides are in Finland it is hard to find when the largest landslide in the history of Finland was.  However in 2011 a large windstorm called Cyclone Dagmar swept overt he nordic countries in Europe causing there to be small amounts of rockslides in Finland and for other...