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Tafjord is a village in 
The village is very isolated and (other than by boat) the only way into the valley is by road from the village of Sylte. The road is composed almost entirely of two tunnels through the very steep mountains along the edge of the Tafjorden: the Heggur Tunnel and the long Skjegghammar Tunnel.
Fjord Municipality
Fjord is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnmøre. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stordal. Other villages in the municipality include Valldal, Eids ...
in Møre og Romsdal
Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...
county, Norway. The village is in a valley located at the end of the Tafjorden, about southeast of the municipal centre of Sylte, and just west of the borders of Reinheimen National Park. In the park, the mountains Tordsnose, Karitinden, and Puttegga all lie about to the southeast of Tafjord in the Tafjordfjella mountain range.
The village is very isolated and (other than by boat) the only way into the valley is by road from the village of Sylte. The road is composed almost entirely of two tunnels through the very steep mountains along the edge of the Tafjorden: the Heggur Tunnel and the long Skjegghammar Tunnel.
Climate
The weather station in Tafjord have been recording since 1925, and holds the record for the warmest temperature in Norway in November at . The January record was earlier a national record until it was beaten in 2020. These warm temperatures in winter and late autumn are primarily due to foehn wind. In April 1937, the monthly average was in Tafjord, the warmest April ever recorded in Norway.Tafjord rockslide disaster
On 7 April 1934, a rockslide of about of rock fell off the mountain Langhamaren from a height of about . The rock landed in the Tafjorden which created a local tsunami which killed 34 people living on the shore of the fjord. The waves reached a height of near the landslide, about at Sylte, and about at Tafjord. It was one of the worst natural disasters in Norway in the 20th century.References
Villages in Møre og Romsdal Fjord (municipality) {{MøreRomsdal-geo-stub