R�ros has a somewhat continental climate. The mean annual precipitation in R�ros is 500 millimetres (20 in), with February�May as the driest period. January's average temperature is ?11.2 �C (11.8 �F), however, R�ros has recorded the coldest temperatures south of Finnmark with ?50.4 �C (?58.7 �F) in early January 1914. In the European cold snap of January 2010 temperatures reached as low as ?42 �C (?44 �F). As winters are cold and stable, the skiing conditions are usually excellent, with the period from February to April as the optimum, as the sun is higher and the days longer than earlier in winter. The July 24-hr average is 11.4 �C (52.5 �F) (from 1961�1990); summer days are often pleasantly warm, but the nights can get chilly. A new heat record was recorded July 2008 with 30.7 �C (87.3 �F).
Haugan, an unincorporated settlement situated 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from R�ros Airport, is the location of a weather station operated by the Norwegian Meteorologist institute. (Norwegian: Meteorologisk institutt)
