80 days of consecutive rain in Bergen, Norway

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IIRC think the wastern parts of Norway is one of the places that has most rain in the world, and i could look like it. :)

80 days of rain in Bergen (http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1603972.ece)
The west coast city of Bergen passed the dubious milestone on Tuesday of charting 80 straight days with rain, and there's no let-up in sight.

Weather statistician Bernt Lie noted that only a few days remain until Bergen can beat its own record of 83 straight days with rain. That was set during the period from January 3 to March 26 1990.

Bergen may also be able to claim its place as Norway's wettest city by beating the national record for rainfall.

http://cache.aftenposten.no/multimedia/archive/00502/SPRINGFLO_OLD021836_502284h.jpg

That record was set at a weather station at Horni in Bærum, west of Oslo, during the period September 24 to December 19, 2000, when it rained at least once a day for 87 days.

The mountain city of Førde, meanwhile, holds the record for the most precipitation in the course of a year, according to Lie

[Petr]

Cute children.

(Dammit, can't even say things like that after this Strom BS started!)


Petr

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Cute children.

(Dammit, can't even say things like that after this Strom BS started!)


Petr

A friend of my mum was asked by a little boy he did not know, if he could help him open his zippers, because he needed to pee, whereas my mums friend turned frightend, and told the boy to pee in his paints.

This is what the pedo-hysteria have turned us non-pedos into, and I might see myself doing the same stuff.

[Hrolf Kraki]

Oh noes! I hope it doesn't rain that much in June as I plan on traveling there then. We were lucky enough to enjoy nice weather with zero rain while in Norway and Sweden last year. Although Iceland sure liked to rain on us quite often for 10 minute stints.

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Because of the mountains and the gulf stream it rains a couple of meters a year in the western parts of Norway.

A joke is told in Bergen about a tourist asking a local boy if it ever stops raining. "I don't know," replies the boy, "I'm only twelve"

[Hrolf Kraki]

Because of the mountains and the gulf stream it rains a couple of meters a year in the western parts of Norway.

A joke is told in Bergen about a tourist asking a local boy if it ever stops raining. "I don't know," replies the boy, "I'm only twelve"

Haha! Nice. I met a lady in Oslo who was in town for business from Bergen. She kept telling us how much better Bergen is than Oslo. I was so pissed that IcelandAir didn't fly to Bergen, but now they do!

I look forward to seeing the mountains, forests, and fjords! :)

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Haha! Nice. I met a lady in Oslo who was in town for business from Bergen. She kept telling us how much better Bergen is than Oslo. I was so pissed that IcelandAir didn't fly to Bergen, but now they do!

I look forward to seeing the mountains, forests, and fjords! :)

Yes it is prettier, but most of Oslo is ugly as it grew under socialist controll, it got new cheap low quality ugly post war architechture, instead of modernizing the old. Almost all of Norway have suffered under this.

The sceenery however is just as good if you choose to enter any of them by the sea.

I would suggest to rent a car, as it is landscape that is most facinating.

Lofoten (central to northern norway) http://www.photomediaservice.com/norway/norway.php?inhalt=Lofoten_I
http://www.photomediaservice.com/imagebank/images/97-norway-232.jpg http://www.photomediaservice.com/imagebank/images/97-norway-258.jpg http://www.photomediaservice.com/imagebank/images/97-norway-136.jpg

[WFHermans]

I love rainy weather, so thank you for posting this. :)

[Guðþormr]

Nothing compares to western Norway, and that is where nearly all of the tourism is.

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http://www.cruisemates.com/images/CoastalVoyages/sognefjord.jpg


http://www.touristphoto.no/images/SOGN/balestrand%20overs.jpg


http://www.stavanger-web.com/images/gallery/alone_on_preikestolen.jpg
Preikestolen (locally known as Hyvlatonnå - '(wood)plane tooth'), Forsand (my grandfather and this side of my family live there).

[Guðþormr]

Petr

Off-topic: Where does your name come from? Is that Old English? Old Norse had Pétr, Middle Norwegian had Péðr (often spelled Peder in old documents) - Modern Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) has reduced it to Per in Denmark/Norway and Pär in Swedish.