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Norway’s May was ‘warmest for 100 years’

The average temperature last month was 4.2 degrees Celsius higher than the normal level for May, the warmest for the month in a century, according to Norway’s Meteorological Institute.

Published: 1 June 2018 15:40 CEST
Norway’s May was 'warmest for 100 years'
Photo: Erik Johansen / NTB scanpix

A new highest individual temperature record was also set on Wednesday when 32.7°C was recorded at Etne in Hordaland county.

“I have never before seen a month with such big temperature jumps,” climate researcher Jostein Mamen is quoted as saying in a Twitter post by the meteorological agency.

New record temperatures were set at 73 different recording stations across the country, news agency NTB reports.

Temperatures have been recorded since 1900.

At the Norwegian Meteorological Institute offices in Blindern near Oslo, the average recorded temperature for the month was 16.1 degrees, the highest ever measured by a Norwegian station in May.

Friday, the first day of June, has continued the bathing-friendly weather into the new month – water temperatures are reported at over 20 degrees from the Swedish border to the western county of Rogaland.

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Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Summer is finally here! Or least it is if you live in southern Norway, where a warm front coming up from Europe will bring t-shirt temperatures of 20C by Thursday, according to forecasts.

Published: 30 April 2024 08:42 CEST
Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Warm air from southern Europe will combine with a high pressure zone which will bring clear skies and sunshine, with summery weather coming towards the end of the week, Norway’s national weather forecaster Yr has reported. 

“Thursday and Friday especially will be nice,” Ingrid Villa, a meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, told the public broadcaster NRK. “Then we will probably get temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius in some places.” 

Patches of 20C warmth are expected both in western Norway around Bergen and in Western Norway around Oslo, with the area around Tromsø expected to have slightly cooler weather, although Villa said that “it will absolutely be something like summer there too”. 

The warm sunny weather is, however, expected to pass northern Norway by, with grey overcast skies expected for much of this week. 

But if you think summer has come to Norway to stay, you risk disappointment as much cooler temperatures are expected next week.  

“There’s nothing unusual in getting an early taste of summer in April and the start of May, and then we can quickly go back to cooler more spring-like weather,” Villa said. 

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