44 stations set a record for the highest maximum temperature measured in June. 22 of these were in Troms and Finnmark, 16 in Nordland. Trøndelag registered 3 records, Rogaland 2 and Svalbard 1. The average temperature for the whole country was 1.5 degrees above normal in June. – The high temperatures are a clear signal of climate change. The summer is on average both longer and warmer, and we get more temperature peaks, says Jostein Mamen, Jostein Mamen, climate researcher at the Meteorological Institute says high temperatures are a clear signal of climate change. Photo: met.no climate researcher at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute in a press release. Although Northern Norway ran away with the most new temperature records, it was in the central eastern part of the country that it was the warmest: Drammen – Berskog (Viken) 17.2 degrees (1.9 degrees above normal) Sarpsborg (Viken) 16.9 degrees (2.0 degrees above normal) Oslo – Hovin (Oslo) 16.8 degrees (1.1 degrees above normal) On the night of June 29, more than 20 stations had tropical nights, ie the temperature during the day never dropped below 20 degrees . Måsvik had the highest minimum temperature, it never dropped below 22.8 degrees. It was a very hot month in Troms and Finnmark and parts of Eastern Norway. A new county record was set in Troms and Finnmark for the highest maximum temperature of 32.5 degrees at Banak in Porsanger on 29 June. Very hot in the Arctic In Svalbard, both Svalbard Airport and Ny-Ålesund set a record for the warmest June. 76 weather stations registered tropical day in June, ie temperatures above 30 degrees. 25 weather stations registered tropical nights in June, which means that the temperature did not fall below 20 degrees at any time during the day. Svalbard Airport had the highest average temperature at 6 degrees through June. It is 2.4 degrees above normal, and the highest monthly temperature recorded here in June. The previous record from 2007 was 5.7 degrees. Ny-Ålesund had an average temperature of 5.7 degrees, 2.9 degrees above normal. It is also the highest monthly temperature recorded in June. The old record was 4.2 degrees from 2006. Also on Bjørnøya, June was a warm month with a Blomstrand glacier by Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Photo: Eivind Molde / news average temperature of 4.7 degrees, 1.8 degrees above normal. For the second time, Bjørnøya registered temperatures above 20 degrees, measured on 29 June. The first time was in 1953. – The region around the northern Barents Sea has a warming that is 2 to 2.5 times higher than the average in the Arctic, and as much as 5 to 7 times higher than the global average, says Ketil Isaksen, climate researcher at the Meteorological Institute. Lurøy with the most precipitation in June Southern Norway, which had a very dry spring, received mainly normal precipitation in June. The exception was Innlandet where the month was partly very wet, where several stations received between 50 and 100 percent more precipitation than normal. In addition, parts of Agder had a very dry month. The wettest stations were: Lurøy (Lurøy, Nordland) 350.7 millimeters (88 percent more precipitation than normal) Brekke in Sogn (Gulen, Vestland) 253.2 millimeters (43 percent more precipitation than normal) Gullfjellet (Bergen, Vestland) 247 .8 millimeters (26 per cent more precipitation than normal) Parts of June were very wet in Nordland, where several stations received between 50 and 100 per cent more precipitation than normal. Relatively driest was in Troms and Finnmark with 50-70 percent less precipitation than normal for June. For the whole country as a whole, the precipitation in June was close to normal. Two stations on Svalbard had significant rainfall in June. Jan Mayen received 90 percent more rainfall than normal, while Hopen received 72 percent more rainfall than normal.
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44 weather stations set a record for the highest measured maximum temperatures measured in June – news Nordland
