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I was just in Oslo and Tromsø a couple of weeks ago. It was raining in Oslo. In February. In Tromsø, it was decidedly above freezing for a good portion of the t
by withinboredom 3y ago
I was just in Oslo and Tromsø a couple of weeks ago. It was raining in Oslo. In February. In Tromsø, it was decidedly above freezing for a good portion of the time we were there. I don't think it's supposed to be above-freezing well up into the Arctic Circle in the middle of winter.
Where I live now (Netherlands), people tell me that just 20 years ago, there was ice-skating on the lakes/canals right now. Now, it is sunny and almost sweater weather instead of coat weather.
- cowbolt 3y agoThe weather in Norway has always been warmer than its latitude would imply (compared to ex. Anchorage) due to the Gulf stream.
- Filligree 3y agoNot to the point of rain in February. I grew up there, but the last decade-and-a-half the winters have gone completely to hell.
- thehappypm 3y agoAre you saying it never used to rain in February? That seems wildly inaccurate, it rains in Alaska year round..
- withinboredom 3y agoIn 2003, it rained one day in Feb: https://weatherspark.com/h/s/68697/2002/3/Historical-Weather-Winter-2002-in-Oslo-Norway#Figures-ObservedWeather https://weatherspark.com/h/s/68697/2002/3/Historical-Weather...
- minkzilla 3y agoand in 1999 it rained many days https://weatherspark.com/h/s/68697/1999/3/Historical-Weather-Winter-1999-in-Oslo-Norway#Figures-ObservedWeather https://weatherspark.com/h/s/68697/1999/3/Historical-Weather...
- thehappypm 3y agoThe point is, anecdotes aren’t science. The weather is (hotter|colder) than my perceived normal for this time, therefore climate change is (real|a hoax)!
- Filligree 3y agoYou're looking at the data for Oslo, in the far south, while I was talking about northern Norway.
- thehappypm 3y agoDid it rain in Tromso while you were there?
- locallost 3y agoYou could ice skate on the canals in Amsterdam in 2018 late February early March (was there for a couple of days). The Earth is definitely warming, but ymmv with anecdotal evidence.
- bobbylarrybobby 3y agoThe question is not “do we ever have normal weather?” but rather “how often do we have abnormal weather, and how abnormal is it?”.