As yet no year without flood in Soomaa. There have been two floods already in this year. The first one arrived in February, and was in many ways exceptional. First of all, sank Soomaa by 2-3 days, as soon as the snow melted, and in addition it rained a lot. Secondly water went so high Read More …
We will celebrate International Bog Day with two diffirent trips: 1) canoe trip 6 km on Raudna river + 3 km bogwalking on Ingatsi trail (ca 4 h); meeting point is near Kuusekäära bridge at 11 a.m.; trip price 15 EUR/p.p.; please take your own food ja drink together 2) bogshoeing 10 km across Kuresoo Read More …
As described in one of the previous blog post, also this year is not without its Soomaa flood. This year is special, however, because the maximum height of the water level and the duration of the flood. While the previous four years went down in history as large flood years, the current year (2014) has Read More …
The winter of 2013/14 has been low in precipitation, which begs the question whether there will be a flood this spring at all. Looking back in history, I analysed the data from the Riisa water gauge, located on Soomaa’s Halliste River, sent to my by the Estonian Weather Services (EMHI). I found that actually there Read More …