The temperate air masses meet the polar one, forming a front at roughly latitude 60 north. Along the front the warmer air rises over the colder one. This forms low pressures that are taken eastward by the jet streams born from the earth's rotation. As the moist rising air from the Atlantic reaches Scotland, it causes much rainfall. But that is not the worst!
As that air keeps moving east, it finally meets the deep fjords of Norway where it must rise over the mountains. That rising creates what is called an orographic effect that further condenses moisture in the air and creates abundant rainfall. This is why the most rainy place in Europe is the town of Bergen on the south-west coast of Norway, not far from Aberdeen, just on the other side of the North Sea.
If I remember correctly, the record for Bergen is 91 consecutive days of rain. Not that it rained non-stop for 91 days, but there wasn't a day in that period of time that it didn't rain in 24 hours.
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The temperate air masses meet the polar one, forming a front at roughly latitude 60 north. Along the front the warmer air rises over the colder one. This forms low pressures that are taken eastward by the jet streams born from the earth's rotation. As the moist rising air from the Atlantic reaches Scotland, it causes much rainfall. But that is not the worst!
As that air keeps moving east, it finally meets the deep fjords of Norway where it must rise over the mountains. That rising creates what is called an orographic effect that further condenses moisture in the air and creates abundant rainfall. This is why the most rainy place in Europe is the town of Bergen on the south-west coast of Norway, not far from Aberdeen, just on the other side of the North Sea.
If I remember correctly, the record for Bergen is 91 consecutive days of rain. Not that it rained non-stop for 91 days, but there wasn't a day in that period of time that it didn't rain in 24 hours.
Look at the map, we have North Atlantic location, would you rather drought?
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