– WE have a strange expression in Tromsø. If we have good weather before Easter, we use the good weather. When the weather is so nice in the south, you use summer weather. Then we will have a fantastic July, Tromsø Mayor Gunnar Wilhelmsen tells Dagbladet.

On Monday, Wilhelmsen’s hometown had the dubious honor of being Norway’s coldest.

In Vervarslinga for northern Norway, which is located about 100 meters above sea level at the top of Tromsøya, just five degrees and more were measured at 12 p.m. this morning.

This is what Julie Solsvik Vågane, service meteorologist at the Institute of Meteorology, tells Dagbladet.

Next is Harstad, a little further south in the county, with its 5.7 degrees of heat.

– No depressive tendencies

– It’s probably going a bit far to say that summer has arrived in Tromsø, notes Wilhelmsen.

He describes the month of May as the worst in many years in terms of weather.

– How does the cold affect life in Tromsø?

– We have a lot of tourists, and more cruise calls and charter flights arriving. This is likely affecting outdoor dining in the city with the weather we have, Wilhelmsen says, and adds:

– But people know how to use nature very well here, and yet it is easily accessible. There are no depressive tendencies.

Negative temperatures in the mountains

In some places in the north it is even colder. In the mountains it is still below zero in some places.

– This morning it was still below freezing on some peaks in Nordland, Troms and Finnmark, but then we have to climb over 600 meters, explains Vågane.

By far the coldest place on Monday morning was the Gámanjunni mountain in Kåfjord municipality in North Troms, where the temperature was minus 3.1 degrees.

– We are also happy with the summer weather

High pressure on the way

– What plans do you have when summer finally arrives in Tromsø?

– Then I will go to several festivals. Riddu Riddu, Bukta and Rakettnatt, says Wilhelmsen.

Despite the very wet spring in Tromsø, meteorologists are seeing signs that Wilhelmsen and the people of Tromsø can enjoy the festival summer without an all-weather jacket.

“Barcelona conditions” in the south – shit in the north

two digits

Northern Lights writes that the anticyclone that recently stalled west of Britain is moving north.

– Then the western weather pattern will give way, so it will clear up on Saturday and Sunday. There will likely be persistent weather and enough openness in cloud cover for there to be sunshine and rising temperatures, meteorologist Per Egil Haga told the paper.

This means that there may be double digit numbers on the scale for frozen northerners.

– I think you have to be careful to say 20 degrees, but it seems to me that it is at least above 15 degrees and a taste of summer. At least if you get downwind from the northeast, Haga told Nordlys.