Why It's 90 Degrees in the Arctic Circle

Lakselv Sentrum, Finnmark, Norway

The town of Lakselv, Norway, located near the Banak Peninsula and more than 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle in far northern Europe, recorded a temperature of 91 degrees on Wednesday and a high of at least 90 degrees twice this week. That's roughly 30 degrees above average for this region of the world.


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Selected high temperatures from July 30-Aug. 1, 2018, in northern Europe.