Sometime between 6 and 7 p.m. today it happened: The Meteorological Institute has now recorded the largest ever amount of precipitation for August at the measuring station at Florida in central Bergen. The previous August record was 399.6 millimeters of rainfall. So far this month, it has rained 400.2 millimeters. Currently, news does not know whether Bergen’s population is proud or crying that the record was broken tonight. In any case, Bruce Springsteen can boast that “he was there” when the wettest August in history hit Bergen. County record Also for the entire county of Vestland, more rain has been recorded so far in August than ever before in August. – We have had a lot of “west weather”. In other words, many low pressures from the west have produced a lot of precipitation, says climate researcher Jostein Mamen at the Meteorological Institute. The measuring station at Gullfjellet has already set a new rainfall record for both Bergen municipality and Vestland county. At Gullfjellet, it has so far rained 615 millimeters in August. The previous record was from 2019. Then 544.3 millimeters of precipitation was measured. – The measuring station is located in the mountains. There are different conditions there and much wetter. What the people of Bergen experience down in the city is something completely different. More precipitation every year State meteorologist Alexander Skeltved in the Meteorological Institute says that it is getting warmer and more and more precipitation every year. – The records are coming closer and closer. Climate change is a big part of it. We expect more torrential rain and that the episodes will be more intense, he says. This month there has been no extreme weather, but many days where it has rained 40 and 50 millimeters. That will be a record. EPISODES WITH TORCIOUS RAIN: State meteorologist Alexander Skeltved says that there is more and more rain every year. And that episodes of torrential rain occur more often. Photo: Benjamin Dyrdal / news – Of course I’m worried On the farm in Hovlandsdal in Guddal in Fjaler, the Meteorological Institute has a measuring station on the land owned by Terje Hovlandsdal. In 2015, this was the wettest place of all the measuring stations in the country. – I hope we don’t break the old record, but it has been incredibly wet this month, he says. The retired farmer is worried that there will be more extreme weather and torrential rain in the future. – The extreme rainstorms that are coming cause a lot of damage, especially on the roads. It’s clear I’m worried, he says. CONCERNED: Terje Hovlandsdal is worried that there will be more extreme weather and torrential rain in the coming years. Photo: Steinar Lote / news Record broken from 1906 A soaking wet August means that old records have been broken. So far, 16 measuring stations in Vestland have set new rainfall records. There are also two other stations in Rogaland and Nordland. For now, it is the measuring station in Haukedalen in Sunnfjord that is set to set the biggest monthly record. It has passed 400 millimeters of rainfall. The previous record is from 1909: 365 millimeters. NEW RECORD: On Tuesday evening, the old August record was broken in Florida in the center of Bergen: So far this month, it has rained 400.2 millimeters. Photo: Benjamin Dyrdal / news … but not the wettest in history in the country By comparison, Troms and Finnmark have had the driest month in the country. Vestfold has had the wettest summer overall. But despite a lot of rainfall: It has not been the wettest August ever in Norway. Because in 1983 it rained 829 millimeters on Lurøy in Nordland. They still hold the record. – It is unlikely to be beaten, says Mamen. And the place with Norway’s wettest day of all time is in Vestland: on 26 November 1940, 229.6 millimeters of rain fell in Matre in Kvinnherad. Published 27.08.2024, at 19.37 Updated 27.08.2024, at 23.21
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New rain record in Bergen – wettest August in Vestland ever – news Vestland
