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UK snow storm causes delays at Swedish airports

Flights from Sweden’s major airports have been hit by lengthy delays and cancellations as snowstorms swept across western Europe and the UK on Monday.

Published: 2 February 2009 13:30 CET
UK snow storm causes delays at Swedish airports

Passengers heading to Paris and London can expect especially long delays, reports the Svenska Dabgladet (SvD) newspaper.

Both British Airways and Scandinavian airline SAS have cancelled flights destined for London due to snow, with other flights to the British capital being delayed up to six hours.

“The plane that was supposed to leave for Heathrow at 7.50am is now six hours late. But the weather doesn’t appear to be getting any better, so I’m not sure how things will look later,” said SAS spokesperson Linda Sjödin to SvD.

Snow has also caused delays as Skavsta airport in Nyköping south of Stockholm, and at Gothenburg’s Landvetter airport.

The delays are due to what authorities in the UK are calling the heaviest snowfall in years.

The storm has created chaos in the country’s transit system, with 15 centimetres of snow already on the ground with more expected throughout the day.

Both Gatwick and London City Airport were temporarily shut down on Sunday, and on Monday, London’s Heathrow airport was operating with only one runway.

Both Stanstead and Gatwick have also warned of delays and cancellations throughout the day on Monday.

WEATHER

Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Summer is finally here! Or least it is if you live in southern Norway, where a warm front coming up from Europe will bring t-shirt temperatures of 20C by Thursday, according to forecasts.

Published: 30 April 2024 08:42 CEST
Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Warm air from southern Europe will combine with a high pressure zone which will bring clear skies and sunshine, with summery weather coming towards the end of the week, Norway’s national weather forecaster Yr has reported. 

“Thursday and Friday especially will be nice,” Ingrid Villa, a meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, told the public broadcaster NRK. “Then we will probably get temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius in some places.” 

Patches of 20C warmth are expected both in western Norway around Bergen and in Western Norway around Oslo, with the area around Tromsø expected to have slightly cooler weather, although Villa said that “it will absolutely be something like summer there too”. 

The warm sunny weather is, however, expected to pass northern Norway by, with grey overcast skies expected for much of this week. 

But if you think summer has come to Norway to stay, you risk disappointment as much cooler temperatures are expected next week.  

“There’s nothing unusual in getting an early taste of summer in April and the start of May, and then we can quickly go back to cooler more spring-like weather,” Villa said. 

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