Spring Weather at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka Norway

Daily high temperatures increase by 18°F, from 37°F to 55°F, rarely falling below 28°F or exceeding 67°F.

Daily low temperatures increase by 15°F, from 29°F to 45°F, rarely falling below 19°F or exceeding 52°F.

For reference, on August 1, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka typically range from 52°F to 63°F, while on February 4, the coldest day of the year, they range from 28°F to 35°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average spring temperatures. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

Kodiak, United States (3,855 miles away) is the far-away foreign place with temperatures most similar to Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka (view comparison).

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The spring at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka experiences very rapidly decreasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy decreasing from 75% to 56%. The lowest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 55% on May 27.

The clearest day of the spring is May 27, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 45% of the time.

For reference, on January 26, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 78%, while on May 27, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 45%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka, the chance of a wet day over the course of the spring is very rapidly decreasing, starting the season at 47% and ending it at 34%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 57% on December 10, and its lowest chance is 33% on May 27.

Over the course of the spring at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka, the chance of a day with only rain remains an essentially constant 35% throughout, the chance of a day with mixed snow and rain decreases from 9% to 0%, and the chance of a day with only snow decreases from 5% to 0%.

Rainfall

To show variation within the season and not just the monthly totals, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during the spring at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka is rapidly decreasing, starting the season at 4.4 inches, when it rarely exceeds 8.2 inches or falls below 1.1 inches, and ending the season at 2.8 inches, when it rarely exceeds 4.9 inches or falls below 0.9 inches.

The lowest average 31-day accumulation is 2.6 inches on May 15.

Snowfall

As with rainfall, we consider the snowfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day snowfall during the spring at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka is rapidly decreasing, starting the season at 4.9 inches, when it rarely exceeds 10.5 inches or falls below 0.7 inches, and ending the season at -0.0 inches, when it rarely exceeds -0.0 inches or falls below -0.0 inches.

Due to its extreme latitude, Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka experiences polar day (also known as the midnight Sun) during the summer. The precise start and end dates of polar day and night vary from year to year and depend on the precise location and elevation of the observer, and the local topography.

Neither polar day nor polar night occur during the spring.

Over the course of the spring at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka, the length of the day is very rapidly increasing. From the start to the end of the season, the length of the day increases by 11 hours, 24 minutes, implying an average daily increase of 7 minutes, 31 seconds, and weekly increase of 52 minutes, 37 seconds.

The shortest day of the spring is March 1, with 10 hours, 4 minutes of daylight and the longest day is May 31, with 21 hours, 27 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the spring at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka is 7:21 AM on March 1 and the earliest sunrise is 4 hours, 55 minutes earlier at 2:26 AM on May 31.

The earliest sunset is 5:24 PM on March 1 and the latest sunset is 6 hours, 29 minutes later at 11:53 PM on May 31.

Daylight saving time (DST) ends at 3:00 AM on March 31, 2024, shifting sunrise and sunset to be an hour earlier.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for the spring of 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka is essentially constant during the spring, remaining around 0% throughout.

For reference, on August 2, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time, while on January 1, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time.

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka is very rapidly decreasing during the spring, decreasing from 13.8 miles per hour to 8.0 miles per hour over the course of the season.

For reference, on January 23, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 14.6 miles per hour, while on July 29, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 6.8 miles per hour.

The wind direction at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka during the spring is predominantly out of the south from March 1 to May 23 and the north from May 23 to May 31.

Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka is located near a large body of water (e.g., ocean, sea, or large lake). This section reports on the wide-area average surface temperature of that water.

The average surface water temperature at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka is increasing during the spring, rising by 7°F, from 41°F to 47°F, over the course of the season.

The lowest average surface water temperature during the spring is 40°F on March 8.

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).

The growing season at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka typically lasts for 6.2 months (190 days), from around April 19 to around October 26, rarely starting before March 30 or after May 9, and rarely ending before October 6 or after November 19.

During the spring at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka, the chance that a given day is within the growing season is very rapidly increasing rising from 0% to 100% over the course of the season.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F.

The average accumulated growing degree days at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka are gradually increasing during the spring, increasing by 60°F, from 0°F to 61°F, over the course of the season.

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy at Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka is very rapidly increasing during the spring, rising by 4.4 kWh, from 0.9 kWh to 5.3 kWh, over the course of the season.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka are 65.957 deg latitude, 12.469 deg longitude, and 33 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka contains very significant variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 984 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 64 feet. Within 10 miles contains very significant variations in elevation (3,484 feet). Within 50 miles also contains extreme variations in elevation (5,650 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Sandnessjøen Airport, Stokka is covered by water (41%), cropland (33%), and trees (20%), within 10 miles by water (49%) and sparse vegetation (15%), and within 50 miles by water (57%) and sparse vegetation (15%).