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Brewers celebrate summer heat

Swedish breweries are happy over the recent heat wave and are hopeful that the warm summer weeks will compensate for poor sales in the spring.

Published: 12 July 2010 08:47 CEST
Brewers celebrate summer heat

Following a weak start to July, the recent heat has left thirsty holiday makers reaching for the bottle and many are choosing a beer to cool off.

Henrik Dunge CEO at brewer Åbro estimates that the company’s sales of beer and soft drinks are currently 10 percent higher than an average summer.

“At the same time we don’t want too good weather. If it is too warm then people don’t have the energy to shop,” he said.

The World Cup has also given sales of beer a boost.

“The matches have come at the perfect time. We particularly note that in our restaurant business there has been a hike during match nights.

Spendrups is another brewer that is satisfied with the start of the summer.

Information director Caroline Ekman said that there are currently no sale figures compiled, but when the weather is good over a longer period of time then sales can climb by 15-20 percent.

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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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