Warm autumn on the top of Europe
September temperatures in Hammerfest on Norway’s Barents Sea coast were 3,1°C above normal.
Autumn starts like the spring ended; substantially warmer weather than normal. Summers in the northernmost parts of mainland Europe are getting longer.
According to the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Hammerfest had an average temperature of 9,6°C last month compared with the monthly normal average of 6,5°C.
Also other places along the coast of northern Norway can look back on an extraordinary warm September.
Both Bodø and Tromsø had 2,9°C above normal, while Longyearbyen’s 4,1°C average peaked 3,8°C warmer than normal continuing the statistics of Arctic temperatures breaking one record after the other.
September was also much warmer than average in northern Finland. Records from the Finnish Meteorological Institute show temperatures up to four degrees Celsius above normal in Western Lapland.
