“Fortunately, it looks like we’ll get a taste of summer into the coming weekend as well,” says state meteorologist Kristian Gislefoss at the Meteorological Institute. He believes it is too early to say that the summer is over. In particular, the summer weather in southern Norway has been nothing to brag about, where the weather has been characterized by fluctuating and unstable temperatures. In Northern Norway, on the other hand, there have been long periods of good weather. Your browser does not support the embedding of external content – Now the Nordics have been spoiled with 20 degrees for a long time. It will be pretty good in the south this weekend too. Western Norway gets a slightly gray start – before the sun comes out on Saturday. I don’t want to say that summer is completely over, even though we are now well into September, says Gislefoss and notes: – There are still many nice days ahead of us, which meteorologically speaking, are defined as summer days! The temperature was well over 20 degrees last weekend. Already this weekend, Ihne Pedersen can jump from the jetty again at Sørenga in Oslo. Photo: Emilie Holtet / NTB Autumn weather lurks in the background Over the past week, Southern Norway has had a taste of what autumn can offer, with a variable change of weather with heavy rain in Eastern Norway and Western Norway. – It will be more and more autumnal in the future, where it will be more typical autumn where the low pressures start to come from the west and which will bring rain and gray weather. But just this weekend it will be good, says the meteorologist. – Does that mean we have to pack our boots and umbrella? – It’s probably a good idea to keep it not too far in the back of the cupboard. Many of us will not have to use it now for the next few days, but suddenly there is a lot of rain. For the westerners, I think I would have left it at the far end of the cupboard, because this is probably where it is most unstable going forward, he continues. WET: In the last week, the weather in the capital has been characterized by a lot of rain. Photo: Gorm Kallestad / NTB Record heat in the north This summer, the story has been a lot about southerners from Eastern Norway who have had to postpone their Norwegian holiday further north in search of the classic Southern weather. And the well-known meteorologist has already pointed out the summer’s big weather winners: – Northern Norway, and Tromsø in particular, has set several records for the highest recorded September temperature. In addition, Northern Norway experienced its warmest start in the month of September, he says and adds: – In Eastern Finnmark, we have seen, among other things, the orange warning for the risk of forest fires. Rare tropical night Earlier this week, the population of Narvik experienced a tropical night, which is a very rare occurrence at this time of year. – Narvik never fell below 20 degrees during the night – we don’t often see that in September. I can hardly remember that it has happened before, possibly at the occasional coastal station far out at sea, but I think we have not seen that in Narvik before, explains the meteorologist. Tropical night Nights where the temperature does not fall below 20°C between 8pm and 8am. Previously, the limit for the minimum temperature was 25 °C, but such tropical nights have only occurred twice in Norway. The first time was on 9 July 1933 when Langbryggen in Halden measured 25.5 degrees in minimum temperature. 60 years later, in the record summer of 1997, Sunndalsøra repeated the “feat” with a minimum temperature of 25 degrees on 29 August 1997. The temperature was therefore adjusted down to Norwegian and Nordic conditions. This definition is mentioned, among other things, in 1947. This is what the autumn holiday weather looks like When the meteorologist looks at the long-term forecasts, it looks like the good weather in the north will continue, but the chance of precipitation increases. Eastern Norway will probably have the most stable weather during the autumn holidays, while westerners can expect more wet weather. For those thinking of going to the mountains on holiday, the message is clear: – The chance of frost increases considerably in the coming weeks. So that you should probably make a small assessment of what kind of tires you have on the car. There will probably not be very much snow at 1000 metres, although it has snowed on Sognefjellet today at 1400 metres, so it looks like our snow line is still a little higher up than that. Published 13.09.2024, at 14.58
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Kristian Gislefoss reports summer weather all weekend – news Norway – Overview of news from different parts of the country
