Extremely low pressure between Iceland and Norway.
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Several meteorological stations in Norway will approach 940 hPa today, close to the all time low ever measured in Norway. Even in Oslo I now measure 952 hPa, which is the lowest I've recorded and my record goes back 17 years. This situation has brought a lot of severe weather across much of Europe, and the Norwegian coast may today see the largest storm surge ever recorded, since this extreme weather coincides with the full moon. This is just the last storm in a series of similar storms this winter. For me in Oslo it brought wind, fog, rain and sleet, and overnight most of the snow melted away, and for the first time in February (probably in 30 years) the snow depth is 0 cm in February here. There is very little snow below 400 masl near the coast now. A low pressure at Iceland and a high pressure at the Azores can get stuck for months during the winter. This is the North Atlantic Oscillation, and we have a really bad case of it this winter, sending an neverending flow of warm humid air in the direction of Scandinavia.