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Forecast: Royal wedding wet and cold

Next week's Royal Wedding could be a wet and chilly affair, if early weather forecasts are to be believed.

Forecast: Royal wedding wet and cold

Two major weather agencies forecast rain and temperatures of about 12 degrees Celsius. However, Sweden’s state weather agency SMHI has better news. it expects sunny spells with temperatures of 25 degrees.

“The weather that day could go two ways,” said Alexandra Ohlsson at SMHI. “It is leaning towards it being 20 to 25 degrees and quite sunny because there is a high pressure system that might still be here on June 19th. We’re hoping for that and that it holds back rain areas that drag temperatures down.”

Norwegian weather site Yr.no predicts 12 degrees and rain; Klart.se predicts 14 degrees and rain.

Ohlsson pointed out that the wedding is still more than a week away, so forecasts are uncertain. Pia Hultgren, meteorologist at SVT, said that forecasts this far in advance had only about a 50 percent chance of being right:

“At this time of year, I would say that [weather forecasts are accurate] only the day before. But then, it depends. If a high pressure system settles in, it could be more stable. In that case you can predict three or four days before.”

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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.

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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