Tag: weather
Ship tunnel plans swamped
An unusual plan to dig a maritime tunnel for ships through a peninsula on Norway's stormy western coast have been swamped, at least for...
Warmer weather waiting in the wings
Winter's here to stay for a few more months, but meteorologists predict temperatures will rise higher than seasonal averages from February to April, especially...
Melting snow isolated thousands
A sudden rise in temperatures over the weekend set off a series of floods and snow- and rock slides all over western Norway, forcing...
Motorists spent the night in a tunnel
More than 200 motorists were forced the spend an uncomfortable night stuck in a tunnel through a mountain in southern Norway, after bad weather...
Slightly milder weather sets in
After several weeks of double-digit degrees below freezing, temperatures in Oslo rose on Monday to a relatively balmy minus-4C. More mild weather was in...
Airline passengers face more delays
Some of Europe's busiest airports were clearing snow and managing to re-open for traffic on Monday, but passengers were told to expect major delays...
Colder weather due next week
The low winter sunlight in central and southern Norway can offer long and beautiful sunsets, but not much warmth, and now weather forecasters say...
Cold snap doubles electricity rates
As Norwegians braved the latest week of an unusual deep freeze, concerns rose over not only skyrocketing electricity rates but whether power supplies would...
Spanish strikes ruined trips
An estimated 11,000 Norwegians were among the hundreds of thousands of airline passengers whose travel plans were seriously disrupted over the weekend by a...
Northern Lights over Lofoten
A good picture really is worth a thousand words. That justifies simply running this spectacular image of an appearance during the weekend of the...
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