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Weather warning: snow and strong winds

A total of 33 Spanish provinces are on high alert today with strong winds, rain and snow expected.

Weather warning: snow and strong winds
Snowfall is expected in several provinces in Spain today. Photo: Pauletta Rosell
Snow will mainly affect the north of the peninsular while the southern third of the country can expect strong winds and heavy rain until Thursday, Spain's meteorological agency AEMET reported late on Monday.
 
On Tuesday there will be rain across the peninsular. This will be heavy in Andalusia but less likely in the south of Catalonia, Aragon and the north or Valencia.
 
Snow will fall above altitudes from 700 metres to 1,000 metres in the north of the peninsular with the snow line dropping during the day. 
 
In Andalusia, Cadiz is on orange alert with heavy seas and winds of gale force 8 expected, reported 20 Minutos.
 
Granada is is on yellow alert for wind, snow and rain while rain, wind and heavy seas are expected in Malaga. 
 
AEMET is also reporting strong rains for Jaén, Seville and Córdoba.
 
Valencia is on alert today with heavy winds expected in the city of Valencia and Castellón.
 
In Aragón, a yellow alert is in place with snow expected in Huesca and Zaragoza while Cantabria, Castilla and León are also bracing for snow.
 
In Galicia, there is a yellow alert because of heavy seas on the coast between La Coruña and Lugo. Ourense, meanwhile, is expecting snow.
 

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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.

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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