"It must be so cold and snowy", that's what people often say when I go to Norway end of February as a skipper of ski & sail expeditions in the Lofoten. And yes we were hoping for snow, but instead, we got rain quite often. This was likely because the temperature of the seawater in the North Atlantic Ocean so early in the year is already getting warmer due to climate change. The moist air above this increasingly warm Atlantic Ocean is blown towards the Norwegian coast by sprin