Tag: snow
Snow allowed skiing on the 17th of May
Norwegians all over the country celebrated a relatively chilly 17th of May, with low temperatures from Oslo to Tromsø accompanied by a cold wind....
Snow stymies traffic over Saltfjellet
Winter returned with a vengeance on Tuesday to the mountains of north-central Norway called Saltfjellet. Both the main E6 highway and the rail line...
Concerns rise as snow disappears
Eager skiers have been making some of their last treks of the season this week amid rising concerns about the future for snow itself. Last week's...
Easter holidays off to a chaotic start
As many as 90,000 airline passengers expecting to fly out of Oslo's main airport at Gardermoen on Friday were met with a chaotic start to...
Snow paralyzed Oslo and beyond
Oslo's bus system shut down, trams weren't running, some trains stood still and Norway's gateway airport at Gardermoen, north of Oslo, finally had to close....
‘White-out’ over southern Norway
UPDATED: There were "white-out conditions" over most of southern and eastern Norway Thursday morning, with lots of snow and wind resulting in numerous traffic accidents...
More snow rolling in from the south
Winter is not over yet in southeastern Norway, despite recent spring-like weather and sunny skies. It was snowing again in Oslo Wednesday morning and...
First snow falls on Northern Norway
After an unusually warm summer, winter arrived suddenly in several areas of Northern Norway on Monday. Snow fell in both the northern counties of...
State shifts gears on snowmobiles
Norway's conservative government surprised the opposition in Parliament and many others Thursday evening, when Environment Minister Tine Sundtoft announced it was halting its controversial...
Snowmobiles get state’s green light
The stillness of the Norwegian mountains and other winter sports areas may soon be broken by the rumble of snowmobiles, after Parliament agreed on...
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