SO_E_U10_DVD.doc

  Elementary Unit 10 DVD Script

DM = Donal MacIntyre              Sk = Shopkeeper                            B = Benedikte

DM:               I’m Donal MacIntyre. I’m about to follow water’s journey around the planet. This is Wild Weather. I’m going to start my journey with water in the wettest place in Western Europe: Bergen, city of rain on Norway’s western coast. It rains here two out of every three days. So what’s the one thing you need in a city like this? Umbrellas – lots of them.

Sk:              We have some special umbrella for little rain, lot of rain and storm.

DM:               For every occasion?

Sk:               Yes.

DM:               This city is so proud of its rain they can it and sell it to tourists because they’ve got lots of it.

And crashing down on the roof of the average family house every month is a staggering 18 tonnes of rain. That’s 225 tonnes a year. This place is seriously wet.

This is TV2, Bergen’s local TV station. Benedikte Rasmussen has the unenviable job of presenting the weather.

B:               The longest period of rain was in 1990. And I know this because I’ve checked it now, but it turns out that it was raining from the 3rd January to the 26th March that year, and that’s about eighty-three days and I can’t remember but I, I think I was quite fed up of rain after those days.