Rainfall and heavy temperatures caused huge amounts of ice to threaten to leave houses and caravans at Breim in Nordfjord.
Underground, a mighty giant is disintegrating: the permafrost is about to drop its roof. Constantly creeping upwards, the permafrost zone is now 100 meters further up the mountainside than 20 years ago.
On Saturday night a new cold record was measured for July at Sognefjellshytta. There is unusually high cold and wind in several places in Norway right now. And little indicates improvement over the next few days.
There is a danger of spring flood over almost the entire country. On Sognefjellet it has not been as much snow in 20 years.
It's been decades since there has been so much snow on the icebergs in southern Norway.
The earliest I have ever seen the cormorant snake has been around the first week of April. I could never imagine meeting snakes in January.
Warm temperatures break 30 year record.
Snake wakens early from winter sleep. He is a sure spring sign, but is not happy in February. If you see a viper at this time of year, then there may be several snakes in the vicinity.
Thousands of years old ice disappears all over Norway. Dag Inge Bakke (42) is among those struggling to save the frozen archive of the past.
The winter holiday offers 15 degrees (C) of heat and spring flowers.
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