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Snow warning issued for national capital

Météo France, the national weather office, has issued a warning ahead of snow expected in the greater Paris region and northern parts of the country.

Published: 6 December 2012 15:25 CET
Snow warning issued for national capital
Detail of Météo France weather map showing areas to be worst hit by snow

The office says it expects accumulations from as little as one to three centimetres around the national capital to 10 centimetres in Picardy.

A total of 13 departments are expected to be impacted, including those in the Nord-Pas de Calais region, along a band extending from Lille to south of Paris.

The snow is forecast to start falling around midnight, continuing through Friday morning.

With temperatures hovering around zero, the snow is expected to be wet and sticky, which can lead to problems when compacted on road surfaces.

Motorists are being asked to be particularly vigilant against icy conditions.
 
Heavy snowfall elsewhere in the country has allowed for many ski resorts to open in the Alps and Pyrenees.

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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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