Here, the records have fallen so far this summer – VG

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The summer will immediately enter its third month, and the joint holiday is over. If you weren’t one of those who got on a plane during the flight chaos this summer – or if you prefer to spend your holidays in your home regions – you’ve certainly dealt with the fiery ball of fire we call the sun.

Researchers have this summer warned that heat waves and extreme heat can occur as a consequence of higher emissions and global warming. We also have in Norway felt the heat wave which has hit Europe.

VG has been sent preliminary data from the Meteorological Institute summarizing the weather in June and July. This is what the numbers show:

Record hot

The month of June was hot, very hot. according to Meteorological Institute June was the tenth warmest June in Norway ever. On average, the temperature in June was 1.7 degrees warmer than usual.

Towards the end of the month it was really hot in northern Norway, and heat records were blown up on an assembly line. As many as 44 weather stations set new temperature records, most of them in the north.

Far, far, north, in Svalbard, it was also the warmest June on record, the Meteorological Institute informs.

But July also got hotter, very hot. A couple of days before we move into August, the statistics show that seven hot July records have been set in Norway – the vast majority of them in the north of the country.

Altogether, 51 heat records were set in Norway during June and July, according to meteorologists’ statistics.

After sun comes…

Rain. Both Western Norway, Trøndelag and Northern Norway had a particularly wet July. Climate researcher Elin Lundstad at the Meteorological Institute points out that the severe weather change is quite natural.

– There is actually a natural reaction. Heat can lead to a lot of moisture up in the atmosphere, which then comes down again, says Lundstad to VG.

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And the rain really came down. 16 weather stations have so far registered new rainfall records for the month of July. All of these were in the counties of Vestland, Trøndelag, Nordland and Troms and Finnmark.

– The weather has been very changeable. Either it has been extremely hot, it was over 30 degrees here one day, and then suddenly we have it here, said Jørn Bendiksen from False to VG when the rain came down worst in the north.

However, it was a weather station in Eastern Norway that got away with the most rain in one day. At Stromfoss in the cove, 56 mm of rain fell within 24 hours.

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The best weather of the summer

VG has been sent a preliminary overview of the summer temperatures in the big cities in the country for both June and July. Two candidates in particular stand out as “summer’s winner”.

– Where was the best weather in the country this summer?

– It’s really not a good thing to say. According to these criteria, it seems that Oslo or Kristiansand are the best places. There are the highest temperatures and the longest period of sunshine, says climate researcher Lundstad and adds:

– Although Tromsø has the highest temperature in July, it has rained a lot there in recent weeks. It is actually almost a new monthly record for rainfall 161.2 mm, beaten only by the year 1999 with 175.1 mm.

See an overview of the major Norwegian cities in the table below!