Climate Battle: Kirkwall, UK vs Bergen, Norway (snowfall, hot, warm)

[The East Frisian]

Two North Sea climates roughly on the same latitude.
While Kirkwall is moderately wet with mild winters and cool summers,
Bergens climate is bit more seasonal pronounced but in return it receives more than 2200 mm of rain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkwall#Climate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen#Climate

So what would you choose climate wise?

[Caleb Yeung]

Bergen. It likely gets a snowpack, since snowfall would have to be quite common with those precipitation days, and it's gloomy preventing thaws. The records (31.8/-16.3) are better than Kirkwall's, too. A record high of 25.6 C is too low, a year can go by without a decently warm day. In Bergen probably you have a few such days a year.

[MeteoMan]

I believe Bergen's rather warmer than that in the most recent proper climo averages period.

[micC]

Bergen - I'd rather have the extra rainfall in turn for the cooler winters and warmer summers.

[Ariete]

Originally Posted by Caleb Yeung

Bergen. It likely gets a snowpack, since snowfall would have to be quite common with those precipitation days, and it's gloomy preventing thaws. The records (31.8/-16.3) are better than Kirkwall's, too. A record high of 25.6 C is too low, a year can go by without a decently warm day. In Bergen probably you have a few such days a year.

Maybe for a couple of weeks during colder winters. But mostly rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. Lots of it.

[Max96]

Bergen for warmer summers (I detest hot summers, but Kirkwall is way too cool) and colder winters.

[tärnajokk]

Originally Posted by Ariete

Maybe for a couple of weeks during colder winters. But mostly rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. Lots of it.

yes... As far as i know snowfall is of course common, but almost never "severe"... precipitation days may be high, but days with severe rainfall above 50mm are quite common there, whereas snow probably almost always falls in little doses... For example, if you look at the last winter, which was colder than on average, you'll find that although precipitation was only a bit lower than normal (so still very high (above 150mm inDecember and January)) the highest snow depth has been only 15 cm (in December) and January and February were almost completely snow-free.... January had 13 precipitation days, 150 mm and was 1°C colder than normal, but almost none of those 150 mm fell as snow.... So, definetely not a snowy place... Quite contrary to some places in Japan with similar winter temperatures, where extremely much of the total winter precipitation falls as snow, despite the relatively high temperatures...

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Bergen of course. Much snowier in the winter, even though it is still sub-par.

[deneb78]

Kirkwall, milder winters with less snowfall.

[Alkis]

Bergen for colder and snowier winters and of course for warmer summers and more precipitation.