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  • BSIM-29 will be held in the week 13-17. October 2025 in Berlin, also commemorating 100 Years of collaboration between Baltic ice services.
  • The last BSIM-28 was in 2023 in Tallin, Estonia

Actual situation 30/04/25 22:25

An automated collection of the latest international ice reports and a graphic representation of the ice situation on the fairways. The colors show the status of the reports: black is a report from today, blue a report from yesterday and green shows that there is no report within the last two days (meaning no ice or no report!).
The fairways denominations after the report (AA, BB, ...) are a link to a representation of the ice conditions of the last 10 days on the respective fairway. Each day is given by a bar, the height gives the ice thickness, the color the ice concentration and symbols below give information about rafted or ridged ice. A ? denotes missing information.
Fairway ice legend

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Danish Ice report

No report
 
Estonian Ice report

No report
 
Finnish Ice report

FINNISH ICE REPORT 30.04.2025

The ice in the Bay of Bothnia has drifted southwest.

In the northern Bay of Bothnia 40-70 cm thick rotten and rotting fast ice to Pohjanthti, Ajos and Kattilankalla. On the Kemi fairway from Kemi 3 to southwest of Kemi 2 there are thick ice floes broken off from fast ice. On the Oulu fairway mostly open water to Kattilankalla but in places there are drifting ice floes. Further out 10-50 cm thick partly ridged close and very close ice to 15 nautical miles west of of Bothnia buoy and 8 nautical miles west of Nahkiainen. The ice field is rotting and there are openings.

In the southern Bay of Bothnia there is rotten drift ice with varying concentration off Kalajoki to 5 nautical miles southwest of Ulkokalla. Elsewhere ice-free.

In the Lake Saimaa rotten ice. The large sweeps and areas of stronger currents are open.

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Germany  German Ice report

No report
 

Latvian Ice report

No report
 

Lithuania Lithuanian Ice report

No report
 

Norway Norwegian Ice report

No report
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Polish Ice report

No report
 

Russian Ice report

No report
 

Swedish Ice report

SWEDISH ICE REPORT

ISSUED: WEDNESDAY APR 30,2025

BAY OF BOTHNIA
IN THE NORTHERN ARCHIPELAGOES 20-70 CM, PARTLY ROTTEN FAST ICE. ALONG THE SOUTHERN COASTS REMNANTS OF ROTTEN ICE. TOWARDS THE FINNISH FAST ICE IN THE NORTH, CONSOLIDATED ICE. AT SEA E OF THE LINE KARLSBORG - E FARSTUGRUNDEN - KALAJOKI, 10-50 CM VERY CLOSE RIDGED ICE AND AREAS OF VERY OPEN TO CLOSE ICE. OTHERWISE MAINLY ICE FREE.
NEXT 24 HOURS MELTING AND INCREASING N ICE DRIFT.

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