Svalbard had a record hot summer season this year. The average temperature measured at Svalbard Airport from June to August was 7.4 degrees.
That is 0.2 degrees higher than the previous record from 2020, the newspaper Svalbardposten reports.
“In Longyearbyen and at several of our other weather stations, the summer was the hottest on record,” senior researcher at the Meteorological Institute, Kjetil Isaksen, stated.
He says that over the past 30 years, the summer in Longyearbyen has become two degrees warmer on average.
In the 1991–2020 period, the average temperature in summer at Svalbard Airport was 5.5 degrees, and for the last ten years, the average has been 6.4 degrees.
The old records were also broken at the Ny-Ålesund and Isfjord radio stations, with 6.1 and 6.6 degrees, respectively, as the average temperature for the summer months.
Source: © NTB Scanpix / #Norway Today / #NorwayTodayNews
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