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Weather statistics for Kirkenes Airport observation site, Sør-Varanger (Finnmark)

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Kirkenes Airport observation station

The station is located in Sør-Varanger municipality, 89 m.a.s.l. It is the closest official weather station, 0.0 km away from Kirkenes Airport observation site. The station was established in November 1940. The station measures temperature and wind. There are no normals for precipitation. There may be missing data.

Last 30 days: Average temperature was 5.4 °C, 2.7 °C above the normal. Highest temperature was 19.4 °C (27 May), and the lowest was -3.1 °C (02 May). Highest wind speed was 13.4 m/s (27 May).

Last 12 full months: Highest temperature was 30.1 °C (9. Jul. 2011) and the lowest -31.2 °C (6. Feb. 2012).

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The black line shows mean value (both precipitation and temperature). Some stations does not have mean values, and hence no black line.

The red/blue line shows average temperature during the day (24h) (equalized for 30 days). The line is red by pluss degrees, and blue by minus degrees.

The red/blue areas shows the temperature variations throughout the day (24h) with max- and min. temperature as endpoints. The area is red by pluss degrees, and blue by minus degrees.

The lightblue bars shows total precipitation this month. The black lines crossing is the normal (mean) value for precipitation.

The dark grey bars behind the precipitation bars shows snowdepth measured day by day.

Some stations only measures precipitation, while others only measures temperature. If an area or bar is missing the station does not measure this data.

NB! Precipitation is measured at 07 hours Norwegian time. The value (in mm) shows last 24 hours until 07 hours (08 hours summertime). Download other weather statistics from eklima.met.no.

Tabular view for temperature and precipitation per month
Months Temperature Wind
Average Normal Warmest Coldest Average Strongest
wind
Apr 2012 -1.1°C 9.0°C Apr 26 -15.6°C Apr 6 3.7 m/s 11.5 m/s Apr 29
Mar 2012 -4.2°C 4.2°C Mar 16 -15.7°C Mar 27 5.1 m/s 14.3 m/s Mar 9
Feb 2012 -12.1°C 0.4°C Feb 11 -31.2°C Feb 6 5.8 m/s 15.0 m/s Feb 19
Jan 2012 -10.2°C -0.3°C Jan 8 -19.6°C Jan 30 4.3 m/s 12.6 m/s Jan 16
Dec 2011 -2.4°C 3.7°C Dec 2 -10.1°C Dec 21 5.1 m/s 14.0 m/s Dec 23
Nov 2011 -0.9°C 5.8°C Nov 11 -10.3°C Nov 21 5.7 m/s 18.3 m/s Nov 15
Oct 2011 3.7°C 8.8°C Oct 16 -1.0°C Oct 9 4.3 m/s 14.0 m/s Oct 8
Sep 2011 9.3°C 19.3°C Sep 10 -0.5°C Sep 20 3.8 m/s 11.3 m/s Sep 30
Aug 2011 11.3°C 23.9°C Aug 2 4.9°C Aug 8 3.4 m/s 8.5 m/s Aug 4
Jul 2011 13.6°C 30.1°C Jul 9 6.2°C Jul 4 3.7 m/s 11.5 m/s Jul 13
Jun 2011 9.4°C 25.6°C Jun 7 1.7°C Jun 5 4.1 m/s 13.1 m/s Jun 5
May 2011 4.9°C 17.5°C May 31 -2.0°C May 1 4.2 m/s 11.8 m/s May 9