The warmer temperatures that were forecast for Scandinavia late last week very much came to fruition on 14 July, with record breaking July figures being experienced. Temperatures that were well above normal and beyond 30°C across Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Of particular note were the conditions experienced in Central Norway with July temperature records being broken at at least in four locations. Steinkjer-Søndre Egge, 120km north of Trondheim recorded a new July high of 33.2°C at 16.00 on the 14th July, exceeding the previous record of 32.9°C from July 16, 2018, and marking the highest temperature in Norway this year.
While 115 kms north east of Steinkjer and on the coast at Osen, a station at the lighthouse (Buholmråsa fyr) in the same Trøndelag county, surpassed the previous record of 30.4°C from 2014 three times before a maximum temperature of 30.9°C recorded at 16.00.
It is understood that new records were set in Marstein at 32.6°C and in Molde on the coast south of Trondheim where 32.2°C was measured.
Following on from the exceptional temperatures recorded eastern Iceland during May, a temperature of 29.5°C on 14 July was recorded in Hjarðarland, a town just north of Reykjavík. This follows a reported 28°C on 13 July and clearly represents some of the hottest days in Iceland’s history. It is interesting to note that Iceland’s all-time high is 30.5°C from 1939 set in the eastern fjords.
