Southern Norway swelters in heat while Alaska burns

On Monday, official thermometers at the University of Oslo’s meteorological station at Blindern soared to nearly 32C.

It was, by comparison, 26 in Rome, 28 in Malaga, Spain and 25 in the Canary Islands.

The highest temperature ever recorded in July in Norway was 35 in both Oslo and Trondheim on July 21 and 22, 1901.

Meanwhile, rising temperatures in Alaska have sparked an unusual number of storms along the state’s south-central coast this summer, with lightning strikes and fires responsible for burning more than one million acres.

In recent weeks, there have been thunderstorms nearly every day along the normally temperate south-central coastline.