– We actually use the Yr app far too much. We use it everywhere, all year round, says Succora Nordin, who is on holiday in Oslo with her family. They have contributed to Yr breaking its previous visitor record with one million users. Mother Succora Nordin and father Brynjar Storvik, Elinor (13) Aksel (10) August (12) Evert (5) and Ebba (4). The family is on holiday in Oslo and uses YR to plan which days they will go to the museum. Photo: Alf Simensen / news The average number of users per week for Yr is 10.5 million. The previous record was set in July last year, which was 12.5 million unique users. In July this year, the record was broken, and Yr can now boast 13.5 million visitors in one week. Yr Yr.no was launched in 2007, and is a collaboration between news and the Meteorological Institute. The service shows the weather in over one million places in Norway, and 12 million places around the world. Since the launch, the number of users has increased steadily every year. Norwegians are the most active users, with Swedes and Danes in second and third place. The Czech Republic and South Africa are the fourth and fifth most active countries. Yr has the most users in the summer and the fewest around Christmas time. The Nordin-Storvik family uses the app to plan activities on the trip. Today, pouring rain is reported, so now they are waiting for the bus to the Technical Museum. – Sometimes we show the children the old weather forecast on TV. They have nothing to do with it, says Nordvik. Sun behind the clouds Martin Furu is in a cardboard box and doesn’t check the weather forecast very often. When he does that, he prefers to use Pent.no to be able to compare several services. Martin Furu doesn’t check often, but when he does, he uses pent.no. Photo: Alf Simensen / news – I have several people in the family who check the app very often when the weather they were hoping for is not reported, he says. Personally, he likes to use Yr to check the pollen warning and radiation warning. In a street in Frogner, sparks fly from an angle grinder. Grzegorz Magdziak works in the construction industry and often uses the app in the morning, especially on the days he has to work outside. In addition, the app works well for planning holidays to Poland. Grzegorz Magdziak uses the app several times a week to see what the weather will be like. It is important because he works outside a lot. He also uses Yr to check the weather in Poland when he travels there. Photo: Alf Simensen / Alf Simensen / news At Frognerparken, Espen Loland looks forward under an umbrella. He is well prepared for today’s downpour, thanks to Yr’s precipitation map. There he can see whether the drops belong to a passing shower, or whether the rain has come to last. Espen Loland regularly checks the app every morning. Photo: Alf Simensen / news Preoccupied by the weather Thorgeir Kolshus believes that Norwegians’ relationship with weather and weather forecasts may be rooted in our past as farmers and fishermen. Photo: Sonja Balci / OsloMet – In general, Norwegians are concerned about the weather, says Thorgeir Kolshus, head of department for the Department of Social Anthropology at UiO. The reason for that may be for historical reasons, he believes. – Many have been dependent on the weather, such as farmers and fishermen, as most of us were before. Then that habit has been carried on. Today, fewer and fewer Norwegians are involved in agriculture and commercial fishing, but many, on the other hand, are very concerned about when the sun peeks out – which naturally drives up traffic. Regardless of whether Yr shows good or bad weather wherever you are, there is a predicted 100 percent chance of cake at Yr’s offices. – When we come back from holiday we usually celebrate with cake, because we usually have a new user record every summer, says Yr manager Ingrid Støver Jensen. Ingrid Støver Jensen is Product Development Manager for Yr. Photo: Alf Simensen / news And this year is definitely no exception. Published 11.08.2024, at 12.17 Updated 11.08.2024, at 13.48
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