The average temperature measured in November this year at the Svea mine on Svalbard north in the Barents Sea was -2,7 °C, or 8,8 °C above normal, reports the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. The temperature measuring at Svea started back in 1978. At Svalbard airport in Longyearbyen, the average temperatures was –1,9 °C, that is 8,4 °C above normal.
But also in Finnmark, northern Norway, November was much warmer than normal, with an average temperature 5 – 6,5 °C above normal at some stations, reports the Norwegian Meteorological.
