53 (Norway : official publication for the Paris exhibition 1900)

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snow falls does not generally amount to more than ⅕ or ⅙ of
the total number of days in which moisture falls in the year.

Hail is observed on the coast occasionally during the year,
in the fjords extremely seldom or never.

Fog occurs most frequently in the summer, less often in the
winter. The southernmost coast district has most foggy days in
the year, between 60 and 70; about Bergen there are between
25 and 30, farther north and in the fjords, between 10 and 20,
or even less.

Thunder-storms are not so frequent aa in south-eastern
Norway, but occur on the coast at all seasons of the year, except
during the spring months. The so-called winter thunder-storms,
which now and then accompany the cyclonic storms of winter, are
characteristic of this stretch of coast. In the Sogne Fjord and
at Vossevangen, on the other hand, thunder-storms occur only in
the summer, but very rarely — on an average, scarcely once a year.

III. NORWAY NORTH.

That part of the country lying north of the Dovre range,
has climatic peculiarities which recall both south-eastern and western
Norwav. Northern Norway has its Gulf Stream coast, and its
inland region; but while the coast stretches uninterruptedly from
the mouth of the Trondhjem Fjord to Vardø, it is only farthest
south and farthest north that the distance from the coast to the
frontier is sufficient to enable us to speak of a real inland in
climatic respects. In the south it is the regions round the head of
the Trondhjem Fjord, and in towards the Swedish frontier, and in
the north the inland mountainous districts of Finmarken.

Temperature. The annual mean temperature on the coast
is 42° farthest south, and diminishes northwards to 33° at Vardø.
It also decreases in the fjords and up the heights. At Stenkjær,
for instance, it is 39°, at Lierne (1463 ft) 33°, and in
Hatfjelddalen (755 ft) 34°, but falls in Finmarken right down to 30° at
Sydvaranger, and 26 ½° at Karasjok (430 ft) and Kautokeino (866 ft).
The average summer is not very warm, nor is it long. On the
coast, August is generally the hottest month, with a mean
temperature of from 55 ½° in the south, to only 48° at Vardø. In

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