– Enjoy the heat while you can. From Wednesday onwards, you get a few days with considerably lower temperatures, before it gets warmer again this weekend. This is what meteorology consultant Jan-Inge Hansen at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute says. On Monday, Bodø broke an almost 50-year-old heat record. On Tuesday, many northerners experienced tropical day. That is, the temperatures reached 30 degrees. There are several records for the weather stations in Troms and Finnmark: Skibotn 31.9 Tromsø 30.2 Banak 31.8 Bardufoss 31.4 – Sørkjosen, Nordstraum in Kvænangen and Alta also had over 30 degrees, says Jan-Inge Hansen. He emphasizes that meteorologists must ensure the quality of the figures before they can establish that this is a record. The official figures will therefore come on Wednesday. If the figures turn out to be correct, Skibotn has reached the highest temperature measured in Troms in June ever. Do you think 30 degrees gets too hot? Yes No Well, it depends on where you are Show result Highly pregnant in the basement On Tuesday, the degree showed 30.2 degrees at Tromsø airport. Thus, the old temperature record for June in 1974 was exceeded by 0.7 degrees. The last tropical day occurred in Tromsø, not everyone was as well off. In an old newspaper clipping from Nordlys, you could read about Mack workers with record sales of beer and mineral water, but who did not have time to eat their packed lunch. – Those who worked at the beer sale were working themselves to death, and pregnant women crammed themselves into cold rooms. Ei told me that she was very pregnant and that it was awful, says Tromsø man Alf Tore Aronsen. He himself turned six years old back in 1972. He celebrated the day in Breivikeidet, where the temperatures far exceeded 30 degrees. – There were traffic jams in the windows of all thinking insects, for my part the heat record could have been set in 1972, he says. Hammock and bathroom In Telegrafbukta in Tromsø, many people had turned up to enjoy the heat. Two of them were the eager bathers Gabriel Fjellstad Olsen (19) and Markus Ottesen (19). – It is cold when you are outside but it is good when you get the heat in you, Ottesen says after a dip. The temperatures in the water were low, but Markus Ottesen (19) and Gabriel Fjellstad Olsen (19) still bathed. Photo: Elena Berg Hansen / news In a hammock a little further away lies Our Anthi Ekanger (23) reading books and sunbathing. – I have slept out in the hammock last night, it has been very nice. My plans further are to do exactly the same as I have done since the weather was good, she says. Our Anthi Ekanger enjoyed himself in the hammock. Photo: Elena Berg Hansen / news Southern atmosphere At Lathari outside Alta, people were out early with full cooler bags, ready for a hot day at the beach. – It’s really nice, and it feels a bit like we’re in the south. Granca vibes, says June Sønvisen. She has taken the kids with her so they can cool off, bathe and enjoy themselves out in the sun. She herself enjoys the warmth of the sidelines. – It’s really going well because we have hoarded fans so that we survive. We are not used to it being so hot at night. We had to buy quite a few fans to get through the night, says Sønvisen. Photo: Trond Odin Myhre Johansen / news Can be linked to climate change – It is quite normal that heat records have been set around the world in recent years. It has to do with the fact that we have had a fairly strong warming of the globe in the last hundred years, says Erik Kolstad, Climate Researcher at NORCE and the Bjerknes Center. He explains that heat records have been set around the world in recent years. – It is normal that the weather is changing, what can be linked to climate change is the high temperatures. Another phenomenon is torrential rain, which has become more common in Norway. It can lead to landslides and floods. Climate researcher Erik Kolstad says it is allowed to enjoy the hot days in the north. Photo: Andreas Graven Despite the fact that the heat is a sign of climate change, Kolstad believes it should be allowed to enjoy the heat. – That it is hot in the summer can be positive, but that it gets warmer and milder in the winter is significantly more negative for Norway, he continues. – It is scary to look at this as a signal of the strong warming we are up against and a foretaste of what is to come later.
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