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30.04.2026

In the Bay of Bothnia, there is rotten fast ice along the coasts in the northwest and north. At sea in the central part, there is 10–40 cm thick and in places ridged drifting ice of varying concentration. Else at sea north of about the line Piteå to Kalajoki is open water.

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