The winters in Denmark are extremely dark, cloudy and depressing. The problem for me is not even the fact that the sun sets early, it’s that I don’t see the sun during the day for WEEKS. Please, explain why I must endure this dark, cloudy winter hellscape?
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Denmark lives where the oceans and the land meet. The oceans control the weather of Denmark because the oceans and the land affect the air differently. When air travels over the ocean it can become full of water. The air coming from the Atlantic ocean is going to be particularly warm and wet, since a big current of warm water from the tropics is pushed up toward Denmark. For the most part, there is a strong wind from the west which pushes ocean air onto the land.
When that wet warm(ish) air begins to meet the land, the air is pushed upward, and the air gets colder, which smooshes the water in the air together into groups which form clouds. When it’s summer, the sun is facing toward the northern hemisphere, and it can burn away these clouds. In the winter, the sun is facing away from the northern hemisphere, preventing the clouds from being burned away. Denmark is also really far north, so in the winter the sun is very very weak there. Since the winds bring the ocean air onto the land of Denmark, clouds continually form without being burned up, resulting in a very cloudy and dark environment.
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