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Spain sizzles as heat wave sets in

Spain's meteorological agency has issued an alert in the face of the heat wave currently affecting a large swathe of the country, saying it could last up to 10 days in some areas.

Published: 5 July 2013 13:38 CEST
Spain sizzles as heat wave sets in
File photo: Vasilios Sfinarolakis

After a cool spring, and talk that summer would not arrive in 2013, southern and central Spain are now experiencing soaring temperatures.

On Thursday, Spain's weather agency AEMET issued an alert saying temperatures could climb as high as 42 degrees in the interior of the south west of the country.

In areas including Castile and León, Galicia (except for the far north), and the Ebro Valley, temperatures could hit a slightly more bearable 34 to 38 degrees.

In the rest of the country, temperatures between 28 and 34 degrees are expected.

The Canary Islands, meanwhile, will see temperatures above 35 degrees from July 9th on.

With a high pressure system only slowing making its way north towards the British Isles, forecasters say it will be at least a week before relief comes .

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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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