2024 was hottest year on record for Norway's Arctic

Oslo (AFP) Jan 8, 2025

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute said Wednesday that 2024 was the hottest year ever recorded for mostly Arctic northern Norway. Last year was the third hottest and the third wettest since records began in 1901 for the Scandinavian nation, which is a major oil and gas producer. But the country's three northernmost regions, which mostly lie north of the Arctic Circle, were 1.3 to 1.5