Norway experienced the warmest weather in over 100 years last year, Meteorological Institute and believes it will only get hotter in the years to come.
In 2014 was the temperature in Norway 2.23 degrees above normal, the warmest since records began over a hundred years ago. It emerged when the Norwegian Meteorological Institute Monday took stock of the climate in Norway last year.
The previous record from 2011 was beaten by 0.4 degrees.
– It is extremely. It’s rare we see so great leaps. 2014 has been a very special year, says climate researcher Hans Olav Hygen at the Meteorological Institute.
The high temperatures also contributed to many extreme weather events: We experienced the driest January month on over 100 years and it was a major contributing cause of the extensive fires in Laerdal, Flatanger and Freya.
Several places were set rainfall records. In the capital rained incredible 44 millimeters in one hour in June. In Western Norway were houses and streets washed away when it got over 300 millimeters of rain in three days in October. Several cases of extreme weather throughout the year, waterspout in Southern and record snowfall in the mountains also belongs to the picture.
Climate Researcher Reidun Gangstø by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute says 2014 weather worries.
– The increase in extreme weather and floods is related to the temperature rise. 2014 weather goes into a trend of increasingly higher temperatures and we fear more extreme weather events with this development, she says to NTB.
More rain and more intense rain, flooding, storm, landslide and a rise in sea level, are among the consequences scientists look for Norway at this development.
– Manmade
Researchers at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute is convinced that temperature change is man-made.
Leader in Naturvernforbundet, Lars Haltbrekken, was present during the presentation. He says the presentation made an impression.
– We knew mostly from before, but watching the forecasts of how the weather will in the future, it makes a very strong impression on us too. We are a nation of people who are very excited to go skiing, but it is perhaps primarily rollerskis we shall take up in the coming years, he says to NTB.
Requires action
According to the forecasts are Norway’s future as a ski nation in danger. The snow depth has already slowed in the coast and in the lowlands, and this trend will only accelerate in the years ahead. Snow season will be shorter across the country.
– Now politicians must act. The government is bound to come with an ambitious climate policy, not only in words, as we have seen so far, but also in deed says Haltbrekken.
Also the world as a whole has experienced a warm year, but about 2014 will be the all-time warmest globally, or about the year ports on a second, or third, will first become apparent during the following weeks.
The whole world warmer
It is not only Norway and northern parts of Europe that had high temperatures in 2014. Also world as a whole has experienced a warm year, but if 2014 will be the all-time warmest globally, or about the year ports on a second, or third, will become clear over the next few weeks.
Also in the UK last year was the warmest since records began in 1910, according to the meteorological department Met Office.
The preliminary figures for 2014 show that the average temperature last year was 9.9 degrees Celsius. It is 0.2 degrees higher than the previous record, which was set in 2006.
Eight out of ten warmest years in the UK after 2000
The average temperature is also 1, 1 degrees higher than the long term average measured between 1981 and 2010. Eight of the ten warmest years in the UK has been since 2002.
Met Office confirms that in 2014, which began with flooding in large parts of Britain also was the fourth wettest year since 1910 with 1297.1 millimeters of rain.
Five of the six wettest year in the country have been registered since 2000.
The UN said at the beginning of December 2014 that came to be the warmest ever worldwide.
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