Norway's Weather

When I tell foreigners I’m from Norway they almost exepctionless burst out: ”Oh isn’t it freezing there and snow and everything?” It is. Still this is only the case a few months a year. What distinguishes the Norwegian weather from the weather in other parts of the world is the variation throughout the year and from place to place also. In Oslo, our summers can be really hot. Up to 30 degrees and sunny. Unfortunately this seldom lasts for many days. Our autums are beautiful with leaves in red, orange, brown and yellow. Around October time the frost arrives. This autumt is no exeption. As for today (13th of October) the sun is shining but the morning were frosty. The first fall of snow normally happens in November, for then to disappear again, before a proper snow fall in December or January marks the beginning of the white period of the year. The last bit of snow usually abandon us in the middle of april. After this a wet and blossoming spring is to come before summer arrives within the change from june to july.

Temperature and rain varies a lot from place to place due to the difference in how high and how far north people live. Norway merely is a big crowd of mountains which streches 1700 km from the south to the north so you can understand that people might live in different climates. You can see the same pattern of seasons in all parts of Norway though. However there are places where the snow never disappears and villages down south where it never lays. So if people starts complaining about our cold weather I say they should come to Norway and test out our variation!