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Snow storms strike in northern Sweden

Heavy overnight snowfalls have been playing havoc with traffic conditions in inland areas of northern Norrland on Wednesday morning.

Published: 7 October 2009 08:59 CEST

“A lot of vehicles have slid off the road,” said Tomas Schäufele, commanding officer on duty at Norrbotten police’s county communications centre.

“Right now there is a truck overturned on the E10 west of Morjärv. Nobody has been hurt but there is petrol leaking from the tank and emergency services are on their way there,” he said.

Police in Jämtland have also received reports of treacherous road conditions as motorists struggle to keep control of their vehicles.

Residents of Östersund, 550 kilometres north of Stockholm, awoke to ten centimetres of snow on the ground on Wednesday morning. Storuman, a further 200 kilometres north, saw 20 centimetres of snow fall overnight.

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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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