FMI weather, climate and precipitation stations (Finland)#

fmi-stations · theme stations · no data

Daily snow depth from the Finnish Meteorological Institute’s automatic weather stations and its manual precipitation and climate stations, open and closed, from 1895 at Helsinki and 1959 at most; no SWE (Finnish snow-course SWE is Syke’s). Station codes are FMI- (FMI-101932, Sodankylä Tähtelä).

import easysnowdata as esd

aoi = (-121.94, 46.72, -121.54, 46.99)   # Mount Rainier

inv_gdf = esd.stations.inventory(aoi, networks="fmi")
obs_ds = esd.stations.load(inv_gdf, variables=["swe", "snwd"],
                           time="2023-10/2024-09")

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Sources#

source

provider

credentials

resolution

extent

temporal

latency

notes

fmi (default)

stations

none

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Finland

1895/present (snow depth; most stations from 1959)

a day

the FMI open-data WFS stored queries; no account; 600 requests per 5 minutes, which the client keeps to

Where each route points#

fmi — FMI open-data WFS no data

https://opendata.fmi.fi/wfs

Variables#

variable

units

dtype

nodata

categorical

baro

hPa

float64

—

no

precip

mm

float64

—

no

rh

%

float64

—

no

snwd

cm

float64

—

no

temp

°C

float64

—

no

temp_max

°C

float64

—

no

temp_min

°C

float64

—

no

wind_dir

degrees

float64

—

no

wind_gust

km/h

float64

—

no

wind_spd

km/h

float64

—

no

Provenance#

Licence · CC BY 4.0

Cite the data as

Finnish Meteorological Institute open data, https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/open-data.

Documentation

Loader · easysnowdata.stations.load