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When the thermometer hovers around the zero degrees Celsius mark, the risk of skidding on the roads increases. New statistics show that this type of temperature fluctuation has become more common virtually in northern Sweden during the past 50 winters.

The first step has now been taken towards a common climate change adaptation strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. The large-scale EU project Baltadapt, where SMHI is one of the partners, is mainly focused on how the sea and coastal areas can be adapted to a change in climate.

Oxygen conditions in the south eastern Baltic have improved thanks to an inflow of oxygen-rich water from the North Sea during November/December 2011. This inflow has also caused the concentrations of phosphate and silicate to increase in the surface waters, which could cause excessive algal blooms …

SMHI, along with the hydrological warning services in Slovakia and the Netherlands, has been given responsibility of disseminating early flood risk warnings to national warning centres in Europe. SMHI will lead the consortium.

This summer, blooms of cyanobacteria were observed for more than two months period, from 29 June to 5 September. During 30 days from the 7 July, extensive blooms were seen, but the most massive accumulations stayed away this year. The Gulf of Bothnia, which usually blooms in August, also had an …

SMHI is taking part in an EU-funded project to strengthen national air quality management in Macedonia. The project aims to build up a system for better handling of air quality data in the country.

If Sweden should be hit by a heat wave in summer 2013, SMHI will issue a warning. This is the ambition of a recently started project which looks at the warning criteria for heat waves and air pollution.

A joint strategy will be presented within three years on how the countries around the Baltic will adapt to climate changes affecting the sea and its coastal zones. SMHI is one of the players that will help drive this ambition to completion.

E-world energy & water at Messe Essen is the leading trade fair in Europe in the energy and water industries. For the seventh year in a row SMHI is represented together with our partner Montel – this year with the SMHI weather products fully integrated into the Montel Online service.

SMHI is organising the international training programme “Climate Change – Mitigation and Adaptation” for the first time in French. Decision makers from West Africa are participating in the training that started at the beginning of December in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and continues in Sweden for …