KULING

INNLANDET · NORWAY

Jotunheimen weather — measured locally, corrected against the outcome

Jotunheimen is northern Europe's high mountain massif, and altitude dominates everything: a single model grid box mixes valley floors at 400 m with summits above 2,000 m. KULING uses valley station measurements as its reference and states openly where uncertainty is high.

Open the forecast for Jotunheimen

How close KULING has been in Jotunheimen, last 90 days

Mean absolute error per parameter, verified against Kystverket (vattenstånd), MET Norway Frost, METAR (flygplatsobservationer), Molnobservationer, Stationsobservationer, mountain_obs. Nothing here is a model self-estimate — every row compares a published forecast with a measurement.

ParameterMean errorVerified points
Wind direction67.46 °744
Cloud cover0.63 steg742
Humidity8.69 %460
Visibility4366.50 m233
Gusts5.24 m/s212
Pressure209.50 hPa212
Sea level21.84 cm212
Snow depth0.06 cm195

Local weather character in Jotunheimen

  • Temperature drops steeply with height — valley floor and high plateau can differ by more than ten degrees in the same hour.
  • The massif blocks westerly moisture: heavy precipitation on the western flank, markedly drier in the lee to the east.
  • Snow depth and avalanche danger follow altitude and wind transport; KULING flags the forecast as uncertain when models disagree.

What you get in the app

  • Hourly forecast with apparent temperature, gusts and minute-level rain start.
  • Rain radar with nowcasting and live lightning strikes.
  • Road weather: slippery-road risk, road surface temperature and visibility.
  • Push alerts for rain, thunder, frost, strong wind and high sea level.
  • A plain-language summary that explains what today actually means.

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