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Drivers urged to stay off icy Skåne roads

A major snowstorm has hit Skåne in southern Sweden, blanketing roads and causing snow drifts, primarily in the Söderslätt area. Majors efforts are being taken to plough the roads, but the Swedish Road Administration (Vägverket) encourages drivers to stay off the roads on Sunday morning.

Published: 20 December 2009 09:21 CET

More than 10 traffic accidents were reported to the Skåne police on Saturday night, primarily in the western and southern parts of the county.

“These are the typical incidents that occur when it snows a lot. But there have been no injuries,” Sofie Österheim, information officer at the Skåne police, told TT news agency.

A car drove into a rail along the E 6 highway near Landskrona just after 6 am. In Malmö, a bus skidded around 7 am and had to be towed.

All accidents are believed to be weather related. “But considering the circumstances, we haven’t seen a lot of accidents. People are being careful or staying at home,” Österheim said.

The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) hasn’t issued any weather advisories. The snowfall in Skåne is expected to abate during the day.

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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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