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In January, the average temperature in Norway is somewhere in between −6 °C (21 °F) and 3 °C (37 °F). [2] Like neighboring Norway, Finland averages −6 °C (21 °F) to 1 °C (34 °F) in the month of January. [2] Finnish areas north of the Arctic Circle rarely see the sun rise, due to the natural phenomenon of the polar night. [7]
Precipitation is heaviest in late autumn and winter along the coast, while April to June is the driest. The innermost parts of the long fjords are somewhat drier: annual precipitation in Lærdal Municipality is 514 mm (20.2 in), and in the north only 338 mm (13.3 in) in Skibotn at the head of Lyngenfjord .
More than 4,000 people are currently evacuated from their homes in southern Norway, officials said, almost half of them in the town of Hoenefoss some 40 km (25 miles) north-west of Oslo, an ...
Climate is defined by the World Meteorological Organization as the average weather over a 30-year period. [1] The North Atlantic Current moderates Svalbard 's temperatures, particularly during winter, giving it up to 20 °C (36 °F) higher winter temperature than similar latitudes in continental Russia and Canada.
Norway has 98 airports, of which 51 facilitate public flights, including one heliport. 45/51 are owned by the government through it airport operator, Avinor. Norway is the country in Europe with the most airline trips per capita, and the routes from Oslo to Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger are all amongst the ten busiest in Europe. Contributing ...
Flights to and from the airport in the Arctic city of Tromsoe resumed Friday after some 200 passengers had to sleep there due to the gale-force winds and snow from Norway’s most powerful storm ...
In October, Hurricane Stan and a broader weather system produced severe flooding across eastern Mexico and Central America, killing 1,668 people, with Guatemala hit the hardest. [2] In late August, Hurricane Katrina became the costliest U.S. hurricane, leaving $125 billion in damage [nb 1] and 1,392 deaths. [3]
Parts of the island of Mallorca was put under yellow and orange weather alerts. Palma police reported felled trees and weather induced damage to buildings in the city. As storms lashed Palma Port the P&O Cruises ship Britannia broke free of its mooring and collided with another ship. The wind had gusts of up to 100 km/h on 28 August. [80]