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First recorded historical reference to Bergen Cathedral. [3] 1194 - 29 June: Coronation of Sverre of Norway. [6] 1247 - 29 July: Coronation of Haakon IV of Norway. 1261. 11 September: Magnus - Ingeborg wedding party takes place in Haakon's Hall. [7] 14 September: Coronation of Magnus VI of Norway.
The warmest temperature ever recorded in Norway is 35.6 °C (96.1 °F) in Nesbyen Municipality. The coldest temperature ever is −51.4 °C (−60.5 °F) in Karasjok Municipality. The warmest month on record was July 1901 in Oslo, with a mean 24-hour temperature of 22.7 °C (72.9 °F)), and the coldest month was February 1966 in Karasjok, with ...
The history of Norway has been influenced to an extraordinary degree by the terrain and the climate of the region. About 10,000 BC, following the retreat inland of the great ice sheets, the earliest inhabitants migrated north into the territory which is now Norway. They traveled steadily northwards along the coastal areas, warmed by the Gulf ...
The Bergen School of meteorology is a school of thought which is the basis for much of modern weather forecasting.. Founded by the meteorologist Prof. Vilhelm Bjerknes and his younger colleagues in 1917, the Bergen School attempts to define the motion of the atmosphere by means of the mathematics of interactions between hydro-and thermodynamics, some of which had originally been discovered or ...
Bergen (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈbæ̀rɡən] ⓘ), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway.As of 2022, its population was roughly 289,330. [4]
Norwegian cyclone model. The older of the models of extratropical cyclone development is known as the Norwegian cyclone model, developed during and shortly after World War I within the Bergen School of Meteorology. In this theory, cyclones develop as they move up and along a frontal boundary, eventually occluding and reaching a barotropically ...
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute ( Norwegian: Meteorologisk institutt ), also known internationally as MET Norway, is Norway 's national meteorological institute. It provides weather forecasts for civilian and military uses and conducts research in meteorology, oceanography and climatology. It is headquartered in Oslo and has offices and ...
The work was a throwback of sorts to Bergen County's early settlers. Generally farmers from France and the Netherlands, they grew rye and built stone houses, barns and frost-proof apple cellars ...