I'm just back from three weeks around latitude 60N in Norway, Sweden, Finland and a day trip into Estonia. I went there with the expectation of encountering rain and sleet going sideways. There was occasional light rain for the first three days, but I was in a meeting, so my wife experienced it on my behalf, wandering about Oslo. :-) That was followed by the longest period of calm, absolutely cloudless weather I can remember experiencing in my 70+ years — a whole week that included two days in Bergen, where it is supposed to rain almost two days in three. After that, we had sunny, warm, shirtsleeve weather apart from one afternoon in Sto