Finland Geol9 Spring 21

 Finland does suffer from some erosion along its coast just like all the Countries of Europe that are not land locked. The gulf of Finland has been known to decimate the sand on the beaches of small islands in the areas as well as the sand along the shores of the counties surrounding it. Due to a change in climate in recent years, areas that there was less amounts of Coastal Erosion such as Finland are seeing drastic changes. Finland is located on extremely hard rock that took long times to erode compared to other areas with softer rocks, like the land in Neva Bay in the Gulf of Finland. The land in that area is fairly soft and so the erosion in that area is drastic. However due to climate change there has been an increase in flooding, icepacks, storms, and wind that has caused drastic changes in the area. Creating a faster paced erosion rate. Finland's best options to prevent coastal erosion is to create breakwaters, beach nourishment, and vegetation in my opinion. Breakwaters are...

 Finland suffers from extreme cold and blizzards. There are record reports of -50°C which comes out to being -58°F which is extremely cold. With this kind of cold combined with a blizzard makes for dangerous situations. Not only is the extreme cold dangerous enough for people that do not have proper clothing and shelter but add in copious amounts of snow and ice making it impossible for people to move about the country easily as well as causing power outages and making infrastructures collapse from the weight of the snow and ice on top. Not to mention it makes it had for people to navigate in the snow and ice so when they have a medical emergency.  There are parts of Finland that do not see daylight for close to two months which is the north of the country that can cause even more issues for people not use to being in darkness constantly. It also causes issues with the cold making it stick around for longer causing more hazards for people. People getting snowed in is a problem...