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Organization | History
History of Finnish Meteorological Institute
The predecessor of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the Magnetic Observatory of Helsinki University, was founded as early as 1838.
Meteorological observations were included in the work of the Observatory from the very beginning; later, in 1881, the Society of Sciences assumed responsibility for the operations, and official name was changed to the Meteorological Central Office, under which name the Institute began to prepare daily weather information for the newspapers of Helsinki in 1885.
In 1919 the FMI became a research institute under the Ministry of Agriculture and later on, in 1968, it was transferred to the Ministry of Transport and Communications.
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