December 2017/Yearly summaries

Ok, here are som observations looking at data for 2017 in Norway
All means are 24-hr means.

Coldest low at Røros: -28.8°C (Dec)
Warmest monthly mean Trondheim-Lade (13m): 15°C (Jul)
Abs low at Svinøy: -1.2°C (Feb)
Wettest month at Lærdal in SW Norway: 77.9 mm in Dec, when Bergen recorded 500 mm.
Norway's warmest place in 2017, Sigdal-Nedre Eggedal: abs high 31.8°C (May!) and abs low -23.2°C (Dec).

Temperate Arctic - if that does give any meaning:
Skrova in Lofoten
Coldest month: 24-hr mean/avg low/avg high: 0.7°C / -0.8°C/2.4°C (Feb)
Four months with mean 10°C+ (11.8 - 13.4 - 13 - 12.6)
Abs low: -7.6°C (Jan)
Abs high: 24.1°C (Jul)

Altitude in the Arctic Circle: Narvik mountains
Fagernes mt (1000 m asl - summit).
Coldest monthly mean: -6.7°C (Jan, Mar and Dec - all the same mean)
Warmest mean: 7.6°C (Jul), avg high 10.3°C
 
Bjørnfjell (512 m - ca 20 km from Fagernes mt)
Coldest monthly mean: -9.3°C (Feb)
Warmest mean: 10.8°C, avg high 14.7°C (Jul - this place is right at the treeline)
Abs high: 23.9°C (Jul)
Abs low: -26.1°C (Jan)
Max snowdepth: 106 cm (Apr), and up to 103 cm snowdepth in early May

Straumsnes (200 m)
Coldest monthly mean: -3.5°C (Feb)
Warmest mean: 12.8°C (Jul) Three months above 10°C
Abs high: 24.7°C
Abs low: -17.5°C
Max snowdepth: 58 cm (Jan)

Mountains in southern Norway:
Juvasshøe (1894 m, Jotunheimen mts)
Coldest monthly mean: -9.2°C (Dec)
Warmest mean: 3.5°C (Jul)
Abs high: 13.9°C
Abs low: -19.8°C (Jan)

Hjerkinn (1012 m, Dovre mts) - Muskox territory in Norway
Coldest mean: -6.4°C (Dec)
Warmest mean: 9.5°C (Jul)
Abs high: 21.6°C (Jul)
Abs low: -22.6°C (Feb)
Wettest month: 97.4 mm (Jul)
Driest month: 29 mm (Feb)

Oregon:

British Columbia:




Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut:

a quite "oceanic" year in kiruna

Well below average month. Most of the western us was well below average too.

Western Australia:



Northern Territory and South Australia:


Queensland:

Russia:

Central Asia: