Kvænangen

The picture is shot in Kvænangen. A municipality in Troms county.

Dominated by the winter season

The climate up here is dominated by the winter season. A long, bitterly cold period with short, clear days, relatively little precipitation mostly in the form of snow, and low humidity.

A friendlier climate than the latitude would indicate

But did you know that although sharing the same latitude as Alaska, Greenland and Siberia, Norway has a pleasant climate compared to these places. Due to the Gulf Stream and warm air currents, Norway has a friendlier climate than the latitude would indicate, and the coldest areas in the winter are often inland or far to the north.

Kvænangen

Kvænangsfjellet

A mountainous area in the municipalities of Kvænangen and Nordreisa in in Troms county.

European route E6 traverses the mountain through a route from Oks Fjord in the south to Kvænang Fjord in the north.

In the winter it´s closed for 10 to 15 days due to snow storms. A short stretch of the route is exposed to the weather, a gap near the route’s highest point, at 402 meters.

Fog

Did you know that fog is a complex atmospheric phenomenon? It is a visible mass consisting of cloud water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth’s surface.

Fog can be considered a type of low-lying cloud.

It forms when the difference between air temperature and dew point is generally less than 2.5 °C.

Kvænangsfjellet

En prestisjetung tittel

Dan F Skovli gikk i 2015 av med seieren i National Geographics store nordiske fotokonkurranse. En meget prestisjefylt tittel!

Fantastisk knipset av nordlyset – og det er selvsagt en sykkel i det også.

«The bike creates the size-ratio in the landscape, and the round wheels seems well in light of the ‎Northern Light and mirroring in the ‎fjord. The headlight almost call for the northern lights. The judges appreciated the interaction between the human and ‎nature created in the image»
– National Geographic

Fra Burfjord

Stedet er Burfjord. Kvænangen kommune. Troms fylke. Bl.annet Kjent for sitt gode idrettsmiljø, spesielt innen ski.

Burfjord

Flere fra Troms:

Reinfjord

Fantastisk bilde knipset i Reinfjord. En bilfri landsbygd i Troms kommune.

Reinfjord

Flere fra Troms: