Title: Climate - Spitsbergen | Svalbard
Headings: Svalbard: climate and weather
Svalbard: climate and weather
BOOKS, CALENDAR, POSTCARDS AND MORE
Limited edition postcard set Antarctica
Double calendar 2021: Spitsbergen and Antarctica
Poster “Svalbardhytter”
Book “Svalbardhytter”
Spitsbergen – Svalbard. The complete guidebook
Norwegens arktischer Norden (2): Aerial Arctic
Rocks and Ice. Landscapes of the North
East Greenland in Winter
Postcard set Spitsbergen (Svalbard)
Limited edition postcard set Antarctica
Double calendar 2021: Spitsbergen and Antarctica
Poster “Svalbardhytter”
Book “Svalbardhytter”

Content: A rain sho­wer can have its beau­ti­ful sides. The wind is chan­ging con­stant­ly in time and in space. Wha­te­ver wind you have got whe­re you are, it may be com­ple­te­ly dif­fe­rent in the next val­ley or fjord or wit­hin half an hour. Spits­ber­gen is not as win­dy as Ice­land, Scot­land or the Falk­land Islands or South Geor­gia. In sum­mer, calm days are more com­mon than strong winds, but a low pres­su­re may always move through, brin­ging 1-2 days of strong wind or even storm. The risk of strong winds is incre­a­sing in autum and win­ter, it is at its lowest in June and July. Strong wind and snow drift at Lloyd’s Hotel in Krossfjord. By now it should real­ly be com­mon know­ledge that cli­ma­te chan­ge is an ongo­ing deve­lo­p­ment and not an obscu­re pre­dic­tion and it makes its­elf felt more stron­gly in the Arc­tic than in lower lati­tu­des. In Spits­ber­gen, the rise tem­pe­ra­tu­re is stron­ger than any­whe­re else in Euro­pe, the win­ter tem­pe­ra­tures have alrea­dy risen by 2 degrees. The­re is appear­ent­ly a ten­den­cy towards mil­der win­ters with more fre­quent warm air influ­ence, and wet­ter, win­dier sum­mers.