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European snow storms set to hit Sweden

Storms which have wreaked havoc across Britain and mainland Europe in recent days is set to hit southern Sweden on Tuesday. Snowfalls and wintry conditions are forecast across the country for at least a week, according to the Swedish meteorological agency (SMHI).

Published: 10 February 2009 13:13 CET
European snow storms set to hit Sweden

At least 600,000 households in northern France have experienced power cuts and many airports have been closed to traffic. Furthermore heavy rains have caused flooding in Britain on the back of the record snow falls across the country last week.

The intensive low pressure front is pushing north from the European continent and snowfalls and easterly winds are forecast in many southern and eastern areas of Sweden on Tuesday, according to SMHI.

Heavy snowfalls can be expected to continue until at least the weekend, and temperatures are set to plunge to below zero in most areas of Sweden as the winter announces its belated arrival.

But cometh the cold cometh the sunshine and much of Sweden will be bathed in bright blue skies and sunshine in the week ahead.

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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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