Norway hit by extreme rainfall in July – second wettest summer since 1900 in Northern Norway – news Møre og Romsdal – Local news, TV and radio

– July was a month of contrasts. The month was to be considered both very hot, cold, extremely wet and extremely dry for different parts of the country, the Meteorological Institute describes in its July report. While westerners cheered for a sunny day in July, farmers in the south and east could wish they saw a rain cloud. In Northern Norway, heat record after heat record was broken. Normal temperature, but… Ketil Tunheim, climate researcher at the Meteorological Institute, says the temperature in July has been quite normal this year. – But the rainfall has not been normal. In parts of Southern and Eastern Norway, it has been particularly dry, while other parts of the country have had an average of 30 per cent more rainfall than previously. Many struggled to hold their umbrella in the rainy cities of Ålesund. Tunheim says we can expect major fluctuations over the next ten years. Extreme drought and rainfall will become more normal. One industry in particular is going to struggle a lot because of this. – Agriculture is going to be very affected due to more droughts and floods. Hot, cold, wet and dry Some stations in Finnmark have measured rainfall that is three times higher than normal rainfall. – Northern Norway has had the most extreme weather in July. Since 1900, there has only been one July that has been wetter than this year there. It was in 2001, says Tunheim. The reason for this weather, he believes, is a mixture of natural fluctuations and global warming. – The average temperature this year is only 0.3 degrees above normal, but if you go back 30 years, you see that the average is actually a whole degree above the average that time. The wettest and driest stations in July Gullfjellet in Bergen was the wettest place in the country in July, with 388.2 mm of precipitation. This is 50 percent more than is normal. Sandhaug in Vestland, on the other hand, had only 10.5 mm of rain. The meteorologists have not yet found out how normal it is.The city with the most rain in one day was Hindalrøra in Molde with 6.39 mm of rain on 10 July.



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