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Yr.no generates weather forecasts for millions of places around the world. Its 3-day forecast uses two different weather models with a 2.5 km resolution in Scandinavia and the Norwegian islands, and for other places, the ECMWF's IFS model in high-resolution configuration (HRES), with a 9 km resolution.
Marine forecasts of sea state parameters are issued both commercially to oil companies and more generally for the public. [citation needed] The institute also provides data for the free online service yr.no, launched in 2007, which provides weather forecasts for some 7 million places in the world.
The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The forecast dates back over 150 years.
A weather ship is a ship stationed in mid-ocean to make meteorological observations for weather forecasting. Since the 1960s this role has been largely superseded by satellites, long-range aircraft and weather buoys. MS Polarfront was known as weather station M ("Mike"), and was located at 66°N, 02°E. Standard meteorological observations were ...
The climate of Norway is more temperate than expected for high latitudes. This is mainly due to the North Atlantic Current with its extension, the Norwegian Current , raising the air temperature; [ 1 ] the prevailing southwesterlies bringing mild air onshore; and the general southwest–northeast orientation of the coast, which allows the ...
Dønski is a village in Bærum, Akershus, Norway. [1] References This page was last edited on 30 August 2024, at 08:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Norway has 98 airports, of which 51 facilitate public flights, including one heliport. 45/51 are owned by the government through it airport operator, Avinor. Norway is the country in Europe with the most airline trips per capita, and the routes from Oslo to Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger are all amongst the ten busiest in Europe. Contributing ...
Svolvær (Norwegian, pronounced [ˈsvôːlvæːr] ⓘ), Suolvearra (Northern Sami), or Spålavuolle [8] is a town [1] and the administrative centre of Vågan Municipality in Nordland County, Norway. It is located on the island of Austvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago , along the Vestfjorden .