The weather is stable without more snow, colder degrees and fiery utility bills before New Years.

It’s the closest prospect across the country to next weekend and the week of Christmas itself. From then on, meteorologists weren’t sure what to expect until Christmas Eve.

– Now and next week there is a cold air that covers the whole country. And most of Europe north of the Alps. This means that the UK will experience a much colder pre-Christmas than usual. Here at home, it’s very common to have temperatures in the 10s and 20s, says state meteorologist Eldbjørg Moxnes at the Meteorological Institute.

The coast of mid-Norway and the south especially avoids the thermometer creeping down towards double digits and on the other side to minus 10.

Here in the long-term forecast for the year.no You can check the temperature and weather where you will be staying for the next week.

72 cm of snow

Western Norway and Trøndelag caught glimpses of the same sunny weather that has produced the sharp, shining sun and night moon seen over Eastern Norway this week.

Møre and Romsdal and Trøndelag have received the most snow so far. 72 centimeters is the amount of fresh and deepest snow measured at traditional measuring points so far.

Skistua i Bymarka in Trondheim has a ski slope friendly weekly code.

In cold weather, it’s currently Rena at Hedmark who holds the weekly record. Minus 21.2 was measured there on Thursday evening.

Less 25

That streak is unlikely to last the weekend and the week ahead. At Røros, the long-term forecast is between minus 20 and 25 for the entire period. Lillehammer stabilizes between 16 and 20 degrees blue at its coldest.

Trondheim will experience double-digit minus degrees from Monday, Tromsø and Oslo from Wednesday.

In other words, it’s very cold here north as far as the Alps. And further south in Europe it is much cooler, but also more unstable in terms of wind and precipitation.

So next week there is again, with Christmas Eve on Saturday the 24th?

– So far, we have not been able to produce reliable data so far. But it looks like the weather will be cooler than next week, at least a bit cooler, said meteorologist Eldbjørg Moxnes.

White Christmas: Gjøvik, Tromsø and Kautokeino

And where would we go to experience a white Christmas if we couldn’t see the snow from the window we call home?

Meteorologists have built several statistical calculators based on measurements of Christmas Eve snow over the course of 30 years.

Kautokeino is the Christmas banker with a 100 percent chance of a white Christmas, i.e. a full pot. Tromsø and Gjøvik with Mjø area are behind with 90 percent probability.

In comparison, the probability of a white Christmas in Oslo is 60 percent and in Bergen 20 percent.