A Warm and wet December
December 2019 was among the ten wettest December months we have recorded, and it was 3.4 degrees above normal on a national basis. At Svalbard,…
December
Björk visit Oslo in December
The Icelandic artist is bringing her critically acclaimed Cornucopia Tour to Oslo Spektrum. This will be her first concert in Norway since 2012. Cornucopia Tour is…
Unusual amounts of dead cod in Inner Oslofjord this past December
In December, more than 100 kilos of dead cod fish were trawled up in several places in the Inner Oslo Fjord. Scientists believe a lack…
December was mild throughout the country
The month temperature for the whole country was 2.2 degrees above normal in December. Relatively the warmest areas were in parts of Finnmark and in…
900 fewer unemployed in December
By the end of December, 63,500 were completely unemployed at Nav. That accounts for 2.3 percent of the workforce. Gross unemployment, which also includes…
Yule – time for food and traditions
Yule – A time for food and traditions in Norway In December, we will shop for food, drinks and other groceries for almost NOK 25…
Christmas food to provide triple sales in December
In Oslo, the butcher shop Strøm-Larsen expects to sell nearly 25 tonnes of Christmas food this year. This means a tripling of sales in December….
Fall in housing prices in December
Fall in housing prices continued in December Housing prices dropped by 0.5 per cent in December, adjusted for seasonal variations. For 2017 as a whole,…
Wetter and warmer December than normal
Wetter and warmer in December than normal A couple of extreme weather conditions contributed to a lot of local precipitation records in December, most in…
Less unemployed than expected by Nav
Less unemployed than expected by Nav A total of 85,000 people are now registered as fully unemployed or employed due to measures by Nav. This…
Abnormally high temperatures in December
The average temperature for the country was 4.6 degrees above normal in December, according to fresh figures from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. The relatively warmest…
Svalbard records temperature 7.4 degrees above normal for December
2016 became the warmest on Svalbard in the nearly 100 years that weather records had been kept in Longyearbyen. In December, the temperature was 7.4…
Norwegians set package record in December
We sent and received Christmas packages as never before this year. Norway Post and Bring has distributed over 3.7 million packages in December and it…
Eight out of ten Norwegians eat Christmas porridge in December
According to a recent survey, eight out of ten Norwegians eat Christmas porridge in the course of the month of December. The young eat most…
Fewer unemployed this December in Norway
The unemployment rate in Norway decreased by 700 people to 78,600 in December, according to seasonally adjusted figures from Nav. There is a decrease of…
Record on having the Warmest December
More Temperature records for December are falling one by one. In Svelvik at Vestfold the temperature was measured at 14.8 degrees Celsius on Thursday afternoon….
The Christmas Fair
Welcome to Norsk Folkemuseum’s annual Christmas Fair! The two first weekends in December: Dec. 3 – 4 / Dec. 10 – 11, 11:00 -16:00. READ…
Kids are not getting a place in kindergarten during November and December
Children born in the last two months of the year must still wait long for available place in kindergarten. This fall the child born in…