Norway and Mid-Norway Feb 2018
Feb was not average. It was cold, dry and sunny for the part of Norway north of Dovre mts and north of Bergen. It was cold and snowy south of the Dovre mts.
Deviation from normal in Norway Feb 2018. Normal is here the old 1961-90. Bardufoss was 7°C below normal. Can you see where Bardufoss is on the map?
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www.met.noSome observations about temperature:
For the country, temp was 0.8°C below the old normal (61-90).
Arctic:
Jan Mayen had the warmest Feb ever recorded with 24-hr mean 1.1°C and avg high 2.5°C - warmer than Bergen!
Bear Island set a new all-time high with 4.6°C.
With a 24-hr mean of -5.4°C and avg high -2.3°C, Longyearbyen was 10.8°C above normal, and just slightly colder than Drammen. Precip was 190 %. Several days with rain.
Some stations on Svalbard were as warm as Oslo.
Warmest station, 24-hr mean: 3.1°C at Svinøy (+0.4°C) and Ona.
Coldest mean: -17.7°C Kautokeino (307 m).
Abs high: 8.9°C Tafjord. Coldest since 2010.
Abs low: -42°C Folldal (694 m)
Precipitation was 65 % of normal.
Very dry in the far north.
Actually there were a High over Northern Scandinavia/Kola Peninsula the whole fucking month!! Driest station: 0 precipitaiton in Narvik (Skjomen). 0.4 mm Nordnesfjellet, and 0.6 mm Tysfjord (Drag) and Nordstraum. All in the far north and mostly west of the mountains.
Wettest: 248.4 mm (187 %) Flekkefjord.
29 stations had their driest Feb on record, among them Tromsø airport (1 mm), Bodø airport (2.5 mm) and Narvik (0 mm, Skjomen)
Tromsø had the sunniest Feb on record, 96.5 sun hrs. A mountain east of Tromsø recorded 141 sunhrs, which is more than Malta is seems.
4 stations recorded new all-time low for Feb, among them Tynset (482 m) with -38.7°C.
Mid-Norway:
Trondheim Airport Værnes - coldest Feb since 2010
Avg high: -0.4°C
Avg low: -7°C
24-hr mean: -3.8°C (-1.4°C compared to 61-90 and -2.4°C compared to 1981-2010)
Abs high: 5.6°C
Abs low: -23.5°C coldest low since 2010, last night of the month! 2C from all-time low any month
Coldest high: -9.1°C again on the last day of month
Warmest low: 1.1
Precip: 17 mm (33 %)
Precip days (>1 mm): 5
Mean snow depth: 6 cm, max snow depth 17 cm
Sun hrs: 98 (recorded at Trondheim-Gløshaugen), had 49 hrs in Jan.
Several stations in the city proper are now back in operation, recording snow depth now! : )
Trondheim-Lade (13 m):
Avg high: 1.1°C
Avg low: -8°C
Mean: -3.3°C
Abs high: 6.1°C
Abs low: -19.3°C
Precip: 30 mm, 6 precip days
Mean snow depth: 17 cm, max was 35 cm
Trondheim-Saupstad (135 m, on the SW part bordering the city hill/city forest
Bymarka):
Avg high 0.2°C, mean -4.2°C
Abs high: 5.6°C
Abs low: -17.8°C
Precip: 29 mm
Mean snow depth: 48 cm (!), max snow depth 65 cm
Larger region:
Ålesund IV (Nørve):
Avg high: 4.8°C
Avg low: 0.5°C
Mean: 2.6°C
Abs high: 7.9°C
Abs low: -6.2°C
Precip: 25.5 mm (30 %)
Precip days: 5
Røros (625 m):
Avg high: -5.6°C
Avg low: -16.3°C
Mean: -11°C (-1.3°C compared to 61-90, -2.2°C using 1981-2010)
Abs high: 0.5°C
Abs low: -35.5°C
Precip: 21.1 mm (76 %)
Mean snow depth: 53 cm, max 61 cm.
