On Wednesday, 17 centimetres of fresh snow fell and at its peak 127 centimetres of snow depth was recorded at the Meteorological Institute in Tromsø on the night of Thursday. But during the night, the snow stopped and turned into large amounts of rain.

So far this year, there has been 653 centimetres of snow in Tromsø. There has not been this much snow in the city since 2000.