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Cold and cloudy weather over Christmas

Cold and cloudy weather across most of Sweden is forecast for the Christmas period, according to the Swedish meteorological agency (SMHI).

Published: 22 December 2008 15:47 CET
Cold and cloudy weather over Christmas

Hopes of a white Christmas look in vain for residents of southern areas as dry weather and higher temperatures are forecast.

Gusty north-westerly winds, with localized hard gusts in southern Sweden, are blowing in across most of Sweden on Monday afternoon. The wind will bring with it colder temperatures across the country on Tuesday.

High pressure is expected to establish its grip over the country in the run up to Christmas with dry, cold and occasionally sunny weather as a result.

Snow falls in highland areas will slowly push east before clearing up into Tuesday morning with some snowfall expected to return sporadically throughout the week

On Christmas Eve cloudy weather will push in from the west and bring with it light snowfalls in central and northern areas and rain in the west. Temperatures will push up on Gotland and Öland and across Skåne while, temperatures are forecast to stay between minus 2-10 in other areas.

Christmas Day and Boxing Day will push the cloud northwards into the highland areas and bring with it snow falls. The remainder of the country will remain dry, with broken cloud, sunshine and cold temperatures, even in the south.

SMHI expects the weather to remain stable throughout the week and into the weekend with few changes forecast.

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Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

Blizzards in Denmark this week have resulted in the greatest depth of snow measured in the country for 13 years.

Published: 4 January 2024 14:18 CET
Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

A half-metre of snow, measured at Hald near East Jutland town Randers, is the deepest to have occurred in Denmark since January 2011, national meteorological agency DMI said.

The measurement was taken by the weather agency at 8am on Thursday.

Around 20-30 centimetres of snow was on the ground across most of northern and eastern Jutland by Thursday, as blizzards peaked resulting in significant disruptions to traffic and transport.

A much greater volume of snow fell in 2011, however, when over 100 centimetres fell on Baltic Sea island Bornholm during a post-Christmas blizzard, which saw as much as 135 centimetres on Bornholm at the end of December 2010.

READ ALSO: Denmark’s January storms could be fourth extreme weather event in three months

With snowfall at its heaviest for over a decade, Wednesday saw a new rainfall record. The 59 millimetres which fell at Svendborg on the island of Funen was the most for a January day in Denmark since 1886. Some 9 weather stations across Funen and Bornholm measured over 50cm of rain.

DMI said that the severe weather now looks to have peaked.

“We do not expect any more weather records to be set in the next 24 hours. But we are looking at some very cold upcoming days,” DMI meteorologist and press spokesperson Herdis Damberg told news wire Ritzau.

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