Final Blog Post
Finland is a unique country with many different hazards that can happen at any given time. However Finlands natural hazard that occurs the most and affects the country the most would be flooding. Finland on average has about 24 inches to 30 inches of precipitation each year with the most of it being snow in the winter months. With the majority of it being snow, in the spring months this snow melts and creates runoff into lower elevated areas. When you combine this amount of snowmelt and rainfall in the spring months it creates a heavy amount of runoff and precipitation in Finland causing flooding to the lower elevated areas. My recommendations to address the hazard of flooding in Finland are pretty simple. Finland does a good job addressing flooding, giving out warnings on the news or on peoples phones, creating ditches to help drain some of the runoff and also researches flooding, and what ways are best to help fix the iss...