11.12.2023
In the northern Bay of Bothnia there is up to 35 cm thick fast ice and level ice in the archipelagos. Further out in the north, up to 25 cm thick, very close ice is drifting at sea. Further south, up to Norra Kvarken, there is level ice or fast ice along the coast and further out new ice. At the coasts of the Sea of Bothnia, in the northern archipelagos and the eastern bays of the Gulf of Finland and in the northernmost part of the Gulf of Riga there is new ice and thin level ice and fast ice at places. New ice and remnants of ice can also be found in some sheltered places of the whole southern Baltic region. New ice is also present in sheltered fjords of the Skagerrak.
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- The ice winter of 2019/20 on the German coasts and the entire Baltic Sea region.
- Eiswinter 2019/20 an den deutschen Küsten und im gesamten Ostseeraum.
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