At Longyearbyen airport, the peak temperature reached 9.2 °C for a short period, nearly two degrees warmer than the last November record measured in 1975.
After frost comes spring, but when it happens in mid-November plants get confused. That is not good news.
Grazing conditions for reindeer in Northern Norway are very poor this winter as an unusual amount of snow forces the reindeer to dig especially deep to find food. On top of that, mild weather has created layers with ice both in the snow and below, locking lichen into the ground and leaving reindeer to starve.
Mass evacuations were ordered in what is being called one of the most destructive fire emergencies in the state’s history.
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