– You’re getting a little sweaty now. This is confirmed by Aasmund Lund, creative director of Christmas in Winterland. On Saturday, the traditional Christmas market opened in Spikersuppa in Oslo. For the occasion, Lund was dressed in a Santa hat, woolen jumper and nickers. It was a heated affair. Aasmund Lund’s Christmas outfit was in the warmest way at this year’s opening of Christmas in Winterland. The scale showed 15 degrees. Photo: Ketil Kern / news On the same day, the thermometer dipped 15.1 degrees in the capital. In several places in Eastern Norway, it is unusually warm this weekend. And according to the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, new heat records are on the way. Unusual temperature Even though the Christmas weather is missing, Spikersuppa is packed with people on Saturday. Between normal winter clothes, thin spring jackets, T-shirts and just layers in shorts can also be seen. Aasmund Lund acknowledges that the warm weather is not usual fare for the organizer of a Christmas market. – I have never experienced that we have had this temperature, but I do not make any statistics about it either. But we have had opening days where we have had snow on the ground, he says. One of those who made the trip to the city to get into the Christmas spirit was Magne Bredo Erichsen. It went like that. – It’s a bit tough. A little early, a little hot. No doubt about it. Magne Bredo Erichsen was one of many who had made the trip to the Christmas market in Spikersuppa on Saturday. But the Christmas spirit was a little hard to get hold of. Photo: Ketil Kern / news – What do you think that it is 15 degrees, blue sky, brilliant sun as we approach the middle of November? – You react a little. I’m not sure if it will be a white Christmas, to put it bluntly, when you stand here. Warm wind from the west The main reason for the fine weather in the capital can provide fertile ground for even more rivalry between easterners and westerners. It is the heavy rain in Western Norway that has led to Eastern Norway receiving a so-called blow wind, a warm wind from the mountains. – They get floods, we get hot degrees? It’s terribly unfair, isn’t it? – Yes, you can say that. But that is because you are in the same air masses. When all the rain has emptied in Western Norway, the air masses come over the mountain and down on the other side. There they heat up faster because it has become dry, explains Martin Granerød, meteorologist on duty at the Meteorological Institute. The very warmest temperatures were seen in Viken last night. At Flesberg in old Buskerud, the meter showed a whopping 18.3 degrees. Also throughout Saturday, there have been high temperatures in several places. 16 degrees on Son (Vestfold and Telemark) 15.9 degrees in Tjølling (Vestfold and Telemark) 15.8 degrees in Lier (Viken) 15.1 degrees on Blindern (Oslo) Climate change in practice – It is the third warmest that has been observed at Blindern. It is exceptionally hot here, there is no doubt about that, says climate researcher Hans Olav Hygen at the Meteorological Institute. He also points to the blowing wind from the west as the main reason for the unusual heat. At the same time, it is also a picture of climate change in practice, because abnormally high temperatures are measured more and more often. Climate scientist Hans Olav Hygen says such high temperatures in November are linked to climate change. Photo: Anders Ekanger – It is a good sign that the weather and climate in Norway is about to change, as part of this global picture. In that sense, it is worrying, he says. – Can we enjoy the heat too? – We live in a cold country far to the north. If we can’t enjoy the few days when it’s actually warm and nice out there, it’s going to be difficult. – Go out, enjoy these days. When you come in, consider that this might not be the best we can have, urges Hygen. Christmas spirit in the heat The crowds in Spikersuppa at least suggest that Oslo people don’t need snow and frost to look for the Christmas spirit. And maybe that’s why Aasmund Lund isn’t worried either, despite the heat. – Now it is the case that they have a Christmas atmosphere in Hawaii too. I don’t see the weather as a big challenge for us, he says smiling.
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